Re: Bug#39989: apt: apt clobbers locally-compiled packages?
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 daniel@bluegreen.dhis.org wrote:
> I discovered today that apt is automatically downloading and installing a
> package which already exist in their latest form on the system. I suspect
> that this is related to the fact that I have locally patched and compiled the
> package (to add Kerberos support, and fix the broken way that it's handled by
> default :-) ) but didn't change the version number.
For you it would make huge amounts of sense to place fetchmail on hold,
that is the intended response. You should do so anyhow as every new
fetchmail upgrade will overwrite your custom package irregardless of it
having the same version number.
This feature is intended to support people who install a glibc2.0 or libc5
compile of a package and do not change the version number when
recompiling. Their package will automatically be upgraded to the archive
version when they are ready.
So it's not a bug, use the dpkg hold feature to tell APT what you want.
Jason
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