[debpool] Re: Should Allow_Version distinguish different archs?

[Free Ekanayaka]

|--==> Magnus Holmgren writes:

  MH> On Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:41, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
  >>it seems that the current behaviour of Allow_Version in Packages.pm is
  >>to run the version check even between binary packages of different
  >>archs. So unless rollback is set, the upload of foo_1.0-1_amd64 will
  >>be rejected if foo_1.0-1_i386 is already present in the archive.
  >>
  >>How could Allow_version be changed to make debpool accept packages
  >>with the same version, but different arch?

  MH> The $VersionDBs have to use $arch in the keys, and Set_Versions(), 
  MH> Get_Version(), and Allow_Version() has to take it into consideration. I'm on 
  MH> it, but I have to check out a new copy to be able to commit just that change 
  MH> to Packages.pm, and also I don't know if it's worth it if the database is 
  MH> going to change radically.

Well, it's something that is probably needed to get true multi-arch
support, unless we decided to "support" this feature through the
rollback option, which is bit hacky.

Ciao,

Free