Re: controlling apt-get
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 09:21, Elm Gysel wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I needed to recompile Exim with different settings so I got the sources and the diff file and recompiled it and made my own .deb package of it (debian/rules binary).
>
> This is the latest stable release.
>
> Now when I do a 'apt-get upgrade' apt-get reinstalls Exim. The funny thing is is that the version I compiled is the same version number as the one that he installs. Is there some way to tell apt-get not to overwrite my compiled package which has the same version number?
You can put your version of Exim "on hold" (man dpkg): from root you can
try 'cat "exim hold" | dpkg --set-selections' or you can use dselect...
Andrea
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