I'm going to respond here and hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong or if there's a better way. On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:52:42AM +0200, Alexander List wrote: > Hello, > > I am about to create site-specific debs, e.g. patched versions of official > Debian packages with local add-ons (that don't make sense for upstream). > > So far, we were naming those packages: > > <companyname>-packagename > > This has the disadvantage that a lot of stuff in debian/rules etc. has to > be changed (directory names below debian are <companyname>-packagename > instead of packagename). > > Another possibility is to add the company name after the package name, > including it in the version number, e.g. package-<company>-1.2.3-1. This would be an improvement. I think you could also increment the epoch number. This will ensure that your packages are higher priority. > I want to assure that only the site-specific packages are use. What's the > best way to achieve this? Apt-Pinning my local repository? This is an interesting idea; instead of unstable/testing/stable pinning, you could have company and stable, or whatever. Then, you wouldn't need to play with the package versions. Cheers, Justin
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