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Re: apt sugestion



On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 04:37:02PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> This could be used for example to allow roots to make apt-get upgrades
> knowing that their servers will remain like they were before and allowing
> them to upgrade them using dpkg or apt but having more care.

Unstable is called unstable for a reason.

> Also a good use is people that compiles versions of a package for their
> special case, and that don't want the package replaced by a new version of
> the standard package, something like a mpg123 compiled for a 486 or a
> speak freely compiled in full duplex, ...

Just remember that if your version number is higher than the one
available it won't get replaced.


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