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Re: package locally compiled gets "upgraded"



In <[🔎] 6a8fced30906022015h5b85545due6a185c06153aa91@mail.gmail.com>, 明覺 wrote:
>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.
>why the apt-upgrade reinstall the same version of  a package?

Because it can tell it isn't the same package and it has a higher positive 
priority.  By default, installed packages have a priority of 100 and 
available packages have a priority of 500.
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