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

[Brock Pytlik]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> Danek Duvall wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If I may ask, what do you feel is the issue with pkg:/ ?
>
I can't see any association between 1 slash and exact match. Also, 
suppose I wanted to specify an authority (which requires 2 slashes if my 
memory serves) and an exact package match (which would require 1 slash), 
what happens then? 3 slashes?

Brock