On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 01:25:15AM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 08:27:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > and if you want to compile them there's always 'apt-get --compile source > > > packagename'. if you haven't used it before here's how it works :) > > > > with the annoying side affect of apt insisting on replacing the > > locally compiled packages with the debian binary version... unless > > you never use apt-get upgrade again or put everything on hold, which > > hides the fact that there is a newer version... (why does apt do that?) > > On my system, i usually bump the version number of the package up by > .0001 before i recompile (then again, i usually only recompile to fix a > bug ;) likewise, or if im tired of waiting for a updated package to get built for powerpc, in which case i don't care if the real one replaces mine. > If you put the locally compiled package into an apt source before any of > the official Debian mirrors, it will keep your version instead of > Debian's as long as the version numbers remain equal. For example, i > have this at the top of my sources.list: > deb file:/usr/local/debs / > dpkg-scanpackages creates the packages file. As a side effect, this > keeps away the 'obsolete/local' classification. this sounds like the perfect solution! thanks. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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