Re: dselect and custom compiled package
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:42:59AM -0800, 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.
Indeed you do. Just increment the version by a bit (e.g.
4.5.55-1.2woody2.1) when you build the source package.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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