Re: Building and upgrading a package...

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:07:14PM +0000, Jaime Ventura <jaimeventura@ipp.pt> was heard to say:
> Hello,
>    Im maintaining my own debian due to some compile options requirements.
>    So, here's my problem.
>    A few weeks i've built a package  version 8.0.1-1.
>    I've copied it properly to my repo and was able to install the  
> package the systems with "aptitude install".
>    Today i've built the version 8.0.2-1 package.
>    But neither "aptitude upgrade" or "aptitude dist-upgrade" upgrades  
> the package.
>
>    Can someone help me?.
>    Is this related to the "urgency",  "priority" or any other option on  
> the changelog/control files?
>
>    I've properly updated the repo and run the "aptitude update". When I  
> do a fresh install of the package, the instaled version is 8.0.2-1, so I  
> assume the repo was correctly updated.

  When you say that a fresh install works but an upgrade doesn't, can I
assume you're talking about two different machines?

  On the machine where an upgrade doesn't work, what do
"apt-cache policy PACKAGE" and "apt-cache showpkg PACKAGE" display?

    Thanks,
  Daniel