From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamish Moffatt Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:22:34 +1100 Subject: [Buildroot] [buildroot 0002514]: fakeroot has an invalid version In-Reply-To: References: <3602fa0f2bfc9d33e7fe0380c3243a05@busybox.net> <1205216050.8434.14.camel@localhost> <46a136670803110638j36c03d7eo5f83f200f5cd7246@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080311232234.GA10859@cloud.net.au> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:55:24AM -0300, Thiago A. Corr?a wrote: > John, > > What I'm rumbling about is that in no less than 1 or 2 months we > will be forced to change it again, just because someone at debian > decided that they wouldn't host an older version anymore. This is > quite constant with the packages that download from there. Please don't suggest malicious intent from Debian where none exists. The Debian package pool (http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/... and mirrors) effectively uses garbage collection; versions of packages are automatically removed when they are no longer the current version in the 'stable', 'unstable' or 'testing' distributions. One way to stabilise the fakeroot package would be to use the version from stable, unless we particularly need features from the new version. That version is 1.5.10. stable only changes every couple of years other than for security updates. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB