Re: can I tell setup.exe NOT to upgrade a specific package from now on?

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Urs Rau wrote:
>
> > Is there any mechanism at all where I can either tell setup.exe to
> > ignore future versions of posgresql or else actually be as precise, as
> > to tell it that I want to stay at version 7.x for now?
>
> No, sorry.  It will try to install "curr" by default every time,
> whatever version that happens to be.

IIRC, if there are two "curr" versions, setup picks the one from the first
setup.ini it encounters.  I wonder, if there's a way to create a custom
setup.ini file with the fixed version as "curr", and then ensure that it's
found first, would setup keep it locked?

In any case, I think I can whip up some quick and dirty code to do the
locking in a day or so, but I think that may do more harm than good...
To do this properly, setup should at least give warnings when a dependency
of a locked version is updated.  I'll send the patch in the next couple of
days, but we shouldn't release a new version until the dependency checking
is in place.
	Igor
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