[desktop-discuss] [pkg-discuss] Modify pkgbuild to make IPS images

[Danek Duvall]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:28:25PM +0200, Lukas Rovensky wrote:

> One more question from the maintenance point of view.  The pkg(1) makes 
> possible to freeze a package at a specified version to stop update flows.  
> Currently this is decided by the user to use this constraint. Will it be 
> possible to set this constraint in the package itself, that is after 
> installing a newer version of the package it will be frozen automatically?

We have the idea of incorporations -- a kind of dependency that will freeze
the depended-upon packages.  This way, you can install the "everything"
"cluster" (for instance), and all the packages beneath it will then be
upgraded in lock-step when you upgrade that single package.

But that sounds a bit different from what you're proposing, and I'm not
sure precisely what that is.  Are you suggesting that there's a sense of
"the last" version of a package, after which it's installed, it can never
be upgraded again?

Danek