Re: apt-get source
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:56:58AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Mon 19 Mar 2001, Charles Farley wrote:
>
> > Of course I can just place those packages on hold, but I was wondering as to
> > the "why". Why does apt want to grab the official packages even though mine
> > have been built in the exact same manner?
>
> Because your .debs have a different checksum to the official ones.
> However, if you had simply installed your debs with dpkg -i
> instead of relying on apt-get, apt would have only considered the
> version numbers, and have seen that you already have the latest
> version.
>
A simpler solution is to make your own entry in debian/changelog, a private
NMU, which superseded the official version.
Drew
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