Re: Bug#58439: apt: apt-get reinstalls installed compiled package
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> I can download the debian source and compile a package for myself using
> './debian/rules binary', and then install the resulting .deb using dpkg.
> (I might want to do this, for instance, in order to compile with Pentium
> optimisation).
You must edit the version number on the produced binaries to be different.
This is more or less debian policy, you cannot create two versions of the
same package that are not the same. APT always assumes local files with
the same version are older than ftp site files.
Jason
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