[opam-devel] How to manage a package manager (Was: Re: [opam] Build clarification (#1149))

[Thomas Gazagnaire]

> One defensive feature to add in this case is to stamp the required OPAM client
> version in ~/.opam and refuse to run if it's too low.  Thomas, Louis, this
> check is only per-remote at the moment and not enforced globally within the
> OPAM state is it?

Yup, simply edit your ~/.opam/config and replace `opam-version: "1.1.1"` by "1.1.2". If you run 'opam list` you get:

$ opam list
[ERROR] Your version of OPAM (1.1.1) is not recent enough to read ~/.opam/config. Upgrade OPAM to a more recent version (at least 1.1.2) to read this file correctly.

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Thomas