Re: APT overrules self-compiled packages
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:04:14PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:05:12 +0100
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 05:23:06AM +0200, KennyD wrote:
> > > Has Anyone an idea what I could have missed, when I searched for an
> > > explicit mention about that behaviour in the documentation? Is that
> > > apt's new policy?
> >
> > As far as I know apt has always behaved like this. Personally I think
> > it's a good idea, since it makes bug reports less confusing in the event
> > of self-compiled packages, and helps me remember which packages on my
> > system I built locally and which are official.
>
> Yea, but I think it would make more sense for the new package to be
> created as more of a fork rather than an incremented version. I ran into
The canonical way to prevent Debian packages from clobbering
your custom-compiled packages a version number of custom-21.1-1. No
normal Debian package will ever have a higher number, even when using
epochs.
Simon
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