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Re: source-package installation lost with upgrade



On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:51:54PM +0200, Robert Kellner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was building some packages with compiler-optimizations
> enabled with dpkg-buildpackage and installed the resulting
> .deb - files, but I found that if I would like to perform
> an apt-get upgrade, the packages I just installed would be
> replaced by the packages available on the ftp-servers.
> How can I prevent this? Is it necassary to put these
> packages on hold or can I set up my own little 
> "server", add this to my apt-source-list and perform,
> and if newer packages are available on other servers,
> these would  then  be upgraded. If so, HOW can I do this?
> Any experience?

apt-build is designed to handle this sort of thing.

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