Package management

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at crschmidt.net
Tue May 15 13:40:30 EDT 2007


On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:00:16PM -0400, virginsnow at vfemail.net wrote:
> In fact,
> 
> # ls -dl /usr/lib/python*
> drwxr-xr-x  15 root root 17313 Mar 10  2006 /usr/lib/python2.3
> drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 21465 Mar 14  2006 /usr/lib/python2.4
> 
> this system is already running 2.3 and 2.4 side-by-side.

In the debian world, this is done by having multiple packages, so when
you install 'python', it really goes under the hood and installs
python2.3 -- you can then install Python2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 alongside
it. (I have all of these installed on my server because I like to know
when I'm going to break compatibility with an old Python. I have a
couple things I've released now that will actually work down to 2.1,
which is kind of cool.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer


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