On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:42, bob wrote: > I have custom compiled and installed the midnight commander package to > include mcserve. My version of the package is 4.5.55-1.2woody2. I > used the latest sources from security.debian.org. Now, whenever I run > dselect, it wants to install the binary from security.debian.org which > would overwrite my custom installation. I am looking for some advice > on how to keep this from happening. I have read about pinning a > specific version but I am thinking that may not be the correct way to > go because my custom version and the official version have the same > name and version. Perhaps I need to have a custom version number. Any > input would be appreciated. as root at a cli prompt: echo "mc hold" | dpkg --set-selections That should take care of the problems. -- greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry
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