From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 74331 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2016 00:03:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 74317 invoked by uid 89); 11 Dec 2016 00:03:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:D*org.uk, pvr.hint, overridehint, UD:override.hint X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 00:03:42 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7F020907 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2016 19:03:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 10 Dec 2016 19:03:41 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-179-112-226.range86-179.btcentralplus.com [86.179.112.226]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 0A1432423F for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2016 19:03:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: How to override previous version? To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <8b4723b2-1bd5-3604-1deb-cfd0a1c7b9d9@dronecode.org.uk> <23d13e3b-760f-d911-4251-f79fee18caea@acm.org> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <9f69c324-982a-de40-1b1a-f7ff0082a202@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 00:03:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <23d13e3b-760f-d911-4251-f79fee18caea@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 On 10/12/2016 22:42, David Rothenberger wrote: > When I package Subversion, I usually leave the last major release as the > previous version in setup because there are compatibility issues when > updating major releases. > > I'm now a little confused about how to accomplish this with the new > pvr.hint scheme. I think I just need to upload an override.hint file, > but I'm not sure what its contents should be nor whether I need to make > one for each package or just one for the entire directory. > > Subversion has many child packages, so I get a dist tree with the > top-level subversion package and then subdirectories for each child > package. Now each of these have a separate pvr.hint file. > > I'm trying to package 1.9.5-1 and 1.8.17-1. Would I do this by creating > an override.hint file in the top-level dist directory with the contents: > > prev: 1.8.17-1 > > Is that sufficient? Any advice would be appreciated. That looks like the right contents. But currently, an override.hint is required for each (sub)package.