Re: Package Version Numbers

[Jeff Grossman <jeff@stikman.com>]

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:


>Installed packages that are not available in a repository have a priority of 
>100.  You could pin (by version) your custom package version to 400 or so.  
>Alternatively would could put your local packages in a local repository and 
>pin that repository to 400 or so.  apt-ftparchive can be quite useful for 
>small, local repositories.

Thank you for that information.  I might just try setting up
apt-ftparchive.  I guess it is reading time.

Jeff