How to override previous version?

[David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>]

When I package Subversion, I usually leave the last major release as the 
previous version in setup because there are compatibility issues when 
updating major releases.

I'm now a little confused about how to accomplish this with the new 
pvr.hint scheme. I think I just need to upload an override.hint file, 
but I'm not sure what its contents should be nor whether I need to make 
one for each package or just one for the entire directory.

Subversion has many child packages, so I get a dist tree with the 
top-level subversion package and then subdirectories for each child 
package. Now each of these have a separate pvr.hint file.

I'm trying to package 1.9.5-1 and 1.8.17-1. Would I do this by creating 
an override.hint file in the top-level dist directory with the contents:

prev: 1.8.17-1

Is that sufficient? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
David


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