Re: APT overrules self-compiled packages
Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 10:31:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Hm, I'm surprised that that bug can't be worked around more easily by
> making sure to install everything in the same dpkg run and then possibly
> doing 'dpkg --configure -a'.
Well that assumes that it's from the same source package which it may
not be.
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