Re: package locally compiled gets "upgraded"

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On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In <[🔎] 20090602162813.GA24136@fantomas.sk>, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>>I tried to locally recompile package "wwwoffle" because of some bugs in
>> it. I have not changed the version hoping that the same version prevents
>> apt from upgrading it.
>>
>>However apt runs "upgrade" while reinstalling the same version of package.
>>Is there any way to tune this behaviour?
>>
>>I haven't changed the version so if any new version appeared in archive, I
>>want to have it upgraded...
>
> Alter the version number, but use something really "small" so the next
> version uploaded by a DD will trump yours.
>
> e.g. If the bugs are in a native package version 1.2.3, make your version
> 1.2.3local1

but why the apt-upgrade reinstall the same version of  a package?

>
> e.g. If the bugs are in a non-native package (I think wwwoffle is non-
> native) version 1.2-2lenny1, make your version 1.2-2lenny1local1.
>
> (If you end up needing to add more changes, you can increment the number
> following "local".)  You can always test how the packaging system will sort
> version numbers by using:
> dpkg --compare-versions version_1 lt version_2; echo $?
> (0 = true; 1 = false)
>
> Alternatively, you could probably do version-pinning via origin, but I'm not
> sure about the specifics of that.
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