On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:18:27 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:11:49AM +0100, eric tanguy wrote: > > > > eric tanguy wrote: > > > >> What's the difference between these 2 repo ? > > > > > > > > Sorry, misread the question last time. > > > > > > > > The difference is explained at the bottom of http://atrpms.net/ > > > > > > > > Paul. > > > So if i understand well all packages from at-stable are included in > > > at-good (maybe with newer version) ? > > > > Yes, less stable repos contain all of their more stable counterparts: > > > > good contains stable > > testing contains good and stable > > bleeding contains testing, good and stable > > so this means you can't have more than one version of the same piece > of software? a stable version, *and* a bleeding edge version? or am > i misreading that? you mean co-existing packages?! as in /usr/bin/yum and /usr/bin/yum-2.1.99 or something like that? that would often not be easy to do, as it would be required to relocate package contents, rename man/help pages, modify startup scripts, and things like that... -- Bernd
