installing random version of a module

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Auke Kok wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have just written a bit of code that allows you to substitute the 
> VERSION in a DETAILS line on the fly when linning a module. You would 
> do something like this:
>
> $ lin --want 2.3 ccache
>

Why not --version?

> The code then does the trick and substitutes the VERSION number in the 
> DETAILS by the wanted version, disables source file integrity checking 
> (of course, big warning), and tries (successfully in this case of 
> course) to install ccache-2.3 instead of ccache-2.4 (which is current 
> in moonbase).
>
> This patch therefore:
>
>
> - makes it extremely easy to test no-brainer module updates (right now 
> I'm trying ImageMagick-6.1.0-3 this way)
> - increases test user base dramatically since it doesn't require the 
> user to edit files
>
>
> however, it should be noted that this method should not be used for 
> normal operations and we should not support modules installed this way 
> (and make that clear I think).
>
> so.. what do you guys think? commit to theedge or not?
>
Commit.

    Jasper