appdb issue: can't search for apps platinum on 1.0.x!

[Ben Klein]

2009/2/28 Remco <remco47 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Except that the first package would be technically outside of the
>> repository, and would have the same version as the one in the
>> repository. This COULD make the package manager think there's an
>> update that needs to be downloaded when it doesn't.
>
> No, it's exactly the same package. The installer of every .deb package
> just has an additional file "winehq.list" with the following contents:
>
> deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt intrepid main
>
> Which must be installed into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. Also, the
> scripting capabilities of .deb packages should make it possible to add
> the authentication key.
>
> The same goes for .rpm and their respective updating mechanism. It's
> like the packages sanitize their environment.

Sorry, but I have worked with this situation, and whether or not the
packages are identical does not change what I said before. The package
manager can think that the version from the repository should replace
the locally-installed version.