Hi Peter, The changset_revision="xxxxxxx" tag attribute is a "minimum version" setting. What this means is that the repository being defined will be installed with any updates to the repository within the set of changeset revisions up to and including the next installable changeset revision for the repository. The exception on this rule is if the defined changeset revisions "xxxxxxx" is an installble changeset revision itself, in which case it will be the revision installed. I know this is a bit confusing, so let me know if this is not clear. The following section of the tool shed wiki provides more details about how an "installable" changeset revision is defined. http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/RepositoryRevisions Greg Von Kuster On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Peter Cock wrote:

Hi all,

I've been reading http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/ToolShedToolFeatures and focused on the example of EMBOSS where the tool definitions depend on the data type definitions. Here the emboss_5 repository (the tool wrappers) contains depository_dependencies.xml saying:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <repositories description="Emboss 5 requires the Galaxy applicable data formats used by Emboss tools."> <repository toolshed="http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu" name="emboss_datatypes" owner="devteam" changeset_revision="a89163f31369" /> </repositories>

Is that revision treated as a minimum version, or an absolute one? This concerns me as I have three repositories which will all depend on the blast_datatypes repository for the 'blastxml' format (etc) - so what happens when these three repositories don't all request the same revision of the blast_datatypes repository?

What I'm using for now is:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <repositories description="This requires the BLAST datatype definitions (e.g. the BLAST XML format)."> <!-- Revision 4:f9a7783ed7b6 on the main tool shed is v0.0.14 which added BLAST databases --> <repository toolshed="http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu" name="blast_datatypes" owner="devteam" changeset_revision="f9a7783ed7b6" /> </repositories>

Regards,

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