On 7 Nov 2000, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Joachim> Same here with gmc -- after an 'apt-get --compile source gmc' > Joachim> another 'apt-get upgrade' will replace my newly compiled > Joachim> package with the same version. > Actually, this is by design and the reason the equivs package was > rewritten. Unfortunately, I didn't take notes why apt behaves like > this. Therefore, I crosspost this to the gurus. They can say for > sure.
If it didn't do this then their would be way to make it do this :> The only other option is to prefer local packages (which can be done by using a hold) and that makes this usefull behavior impossible. Jason
