[indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] pkg won't install older versions of packages

[Danek Duvall]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:48:25PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:

>> Perhaps, but it does match the way dependencies work.  It makes a lot of
>> sense to me -- "install a 1.0 product, but if it's been patched up to ..4,
>> then install that".  Like "pkg install python at 2.4" gives you python at 2.4.4.
>> Why not?  We've talked about version syntax that would force an exact
>> match, but in this case, it could simply be a flag to pkg install.
>
> That would be fine too.  Perhaps the exact match case is to start with 
> pkg:/ instead of adding a flag?

That doesn't feel right to me, but if you can provide arguments for that,
I'd be happy to consider them.

Danek