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Re: APT overrules self-compiled packages



Le Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 10:31:36PM -0400, Joey Hess a écrit:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:04:14PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > > 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
> > > this myself a while back and now that I've read through more of the
> > > maintainer and policy documentation it seems that it would make more sense
> > > to create a new package name that "provides" the old package name.
> > 
> > Provides currently can't satisfy versioned dependencies, so this will
> > often be inadequate.
> 
> Neither can incremented version numbers in all cases. Consider:
> 
> Depends: foo (= 1.0-1)
> 
> This is a prime reason why this behavior of apt stinks. See exactly this
> trouble being run into by the apt-build program in bug #155170. I wish this
> behavior could be turned off by easier means than setting up your own
> apt repository.
> 
> By the way Julien, could you explain what you did to close bug #155170? I need
> to add some similar fix to apt-src probably.

Yes, apt-build 0.6 creates a local repository with built packages.
Its repository line is the first of sources.list, so its packages have
biggest priority for apt.
Furthermore, the repository can be exported.

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