Simon Eilting wrote: > hope this is the correct place to ask. Why is it, that when I install a > package with apt-src, and do an apt-get -u upgrade after that, that the > package is to be 'upgraded' to another package of the exact same > version from the debian server? Isn't it only supposed to upgrade if > the version number has changed? Or do I need to do something special > after installing the from-source package? This happens with every > package, I tried 9. I am using an up-to-date sid.
It's because apt some weird ideas about package versions. It basically refuses to let you keep installed a locally built package if a package of the same version is available in sources.list. Personally I think this is quite braindead. There are some possibile workarounds (create a local repository and make sure apt knows about it, or increment the version number), but they all introduce unnecessary complications and so I have been unwilling to add hacks of this sort to apr-src, preferring instead to put some pressure on apt to get this misfeature fixed. -- see shy jo
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