Re: Permissions on source package
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:17:13AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:11:08AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> >
> > [Please don't send me private copies of list mail.]
>
> Sorry, I have a hard time keeping track of who likes cc and who doesn't.
I set a Mail-Followup-To: header for this, so that people don't need to
keep track. It's been discussed in other threads here recently.
> Personally, I actually like the cc's on lists that are sometimes slow, but
> I don't want duplicates. Luckily there's procmail. I'm sure you know
> this:
>
> :0 Wh: msgid.lock
> | /usr/bin/formail -D 8192 $HOME/msgid.cache
If something is really urgent (more likely on lists other than
debian-user), I want to get the copy in my inbox. Also, since the lists
are usually slower than direct mail that results in the list copy being
deleted rather than the one in my inbox, which is exactly the reverse of
what I'd want.
So, while I use procmail heavily, I avoid this.
> > > Finally, I suppose if 0.9.3-3 shows up in the debian sources then my next
> > > dist-upgrade will overwrite my local version, correct?
> >
> > Yes. You can use an epoch in your local version if you want to avoid
> > that.
>
> I'm sorry. I don't follow. Can you give an example?
An epoched version is something like 1:0.9.3-2. 1:<some-version> is
greater than any <some-version> that doesn't start with a number and a
colon; 2:<some-version> is greater than any 1:<some-version>; and so on.
> And if 0.9.3-3 shows up it will replace my version of 0.9.3-2+local.1?
Yes.
> > Sounds like you want something like apt-src.
>
> I think I want a way that I see if apt-get dist-upgrade is going to
> replace my 0.9.3-2+local.1 package.
(Does dist-upgrade honour held packages? I can never remember.)
Well, apt-src won't solve this directly, but if you run 'apt-src
upgrade' before 'apt-get dist-upgrade' then it will upgrade and install
all locally compiled packages it controls. It's got a man page
explaining everything.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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