How can i install different versions of the same hpkg package?

zztt-ld · February 28, 2018, 2:08am

How can i install different versions of the same hpkg package?
For example, I installed a V1 version of the commercial software I purchased, and now this commercial software has released a new version, I would like to try the new version without uninstalling the old version, so how can i install different versions of the same hpkg package?

extrowerk · February 28, 2018, 4:36am

Put one in system/packages and the other in home/packages.

zztt-ld · February 28, 2018, 5:11am

but I use Pkgman software installed from Haikuports repo to automatically install to System/packages

lelldorin · February 28, 2018, 5:17am

Drag and drop the old pkg from system into home

zztt-ld · February 28, 2018, 7:23am

Yes, you can do this, but if I install the HPKG package through Pkgman install from some repo,How to Operate?

Diver · February 28, 2018, 9:29am

pkgmain install --home mc

lelldorin · February 28, 2018, 9:44am

I never tried this. Do we have then double entries in the menu?

Diver · February 28, 2018, 9:55am

I just tried it and it seems that pkgman doesn’t let you install a package that is already installed.
So you can only do it manually.

lelldorin · February 28, 2018, 10:30am

This is my thinking on it too. But installing manual would be the same.

iirc is the package hirachy that if you install in home/…Packages this packege will be the active one. If you remove this package the system one us active

humdinger · February 28, 2018, 4:24pm

Is this a purely academical question?
I wonder, because our packages being completely self-contained and un/installed in seconds, what speaks against moving the old package out of /system/packages/ and moving the new one in?
And vice-versa if you decide the new version doesn’t work for you.

bullfrog · February 28, 2018, 11:28pm

Perhaps there are two applications that use the same dependency, yet are only compatible with two different versions of that dependency? That’s about the only practical reason I can think of.

humdinger · March 1, 2018, 4:38pm

Then the compatibility designation of that dependency or the differing requirements of the packages depending on it is wrong and needs fixing, I’d say.