[Slapt-get-user] Sources with different priority?

[Jason Woodward]

Hi Eugene,

> Wouldn't the last command overwrite gsb packages with the those that
> have higher version in official distribution?

Not if you have the gsb packages excluded in your default rc.

> Wouldn't a number of packages be first "upgraded" by second command,
> then downloaded again and "downgraded to normal" by third?

Not if you exclude vanilla slackware packages in your linuxpackages rc with:

EXCLUDE=/slackware/[a-z]+/$

> Also, if I understand right, --reinstall
> would reinstall a whole bunch of packages, which is rather time-consuming.

Only those packages you requested that you wanted no matter if it was a lesser version or not.
 I meant this on a package by package basis.

> In my opinion, prioritizing from within slapt-getrc is more appropriate,
> because the decision about which packages are "better" is left to the
> user rather than the package maintainer.  Some people may want to
> override official packages with custom "cutting edge" ones, others may not.

I can see that as being desirable.

> Initially, I thought about prioritizing by regexp (like "anything that
> has 'frg' in the name has priority over everything else"), but that
> would not fit in situation when some site carry packages that are not
> easily distinguishable by their name.

But that would work if  you segregated your package sources into seperate rc files.  So even
those packages w/o clear naming could be sandboxed in by slapt-get only knowing of that
sourcese packages at that time.

> I understand that my proposal has its limitations too, but IMHO it would
> be fitting in many practical cases.  It also should be quite easy to
> implement, by just adding one more step in the sorting algorithm.

Let me know if you come up with a patch for this.  I'm short on free time at the moment.


take care,
jason

--
Jason Woodward
woodwardj at jaos.org

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