[Lazarus] trouble with packages

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:25:42 +0100
Luca Olivetti <luca at wetron.es> wrote:

> En/na Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit:
> > Luca Olivetti wrote:
> >> Exactly.
> >> Now, look at those file, they are referencing to packages, some of them 
> >> are in your fixed extra packages (no problem with those) but some of 
> > 
> > OK, maybe I'm not understanding the problem then.  :)
> > 
> > When I started using the second profile (different version of Lazarus),
> > I simply made a copy of the original profile directory (cp ~/.lazarus
> > ~/.lazarus-stable) and pointed the new desktop icon to use that profile.
> > So both had the same configurations and installed packages - as I wanted.
> 
> Beware, then, that the new profile is using packages from the old lazarus.

Not with 0.9.29.
The packgefiles.xml stores the file names of the lpk files.
lpk files in the lazarus directory are stored without the lazarus
directory. So if your pcp uses another lazarus directory, then the
packages from the new lazarus will be used.

Mattias