On 27-Aug-01, 17:25 (CDT), Samu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > this is just a curiosity, i think is not so security related, aniway...
So it should be on the debian-user list. > if i made a package by my self, or from deb sources, of a package > that already exist on to the debian db, and my "local" package is > called as the official one, when i run then dselect or apt, they overwrite > my local pkg for the official one. > i have to explicity "hold" the local package to not to have overwritten. > why ? they aren't checked only for the version number ? It shouldn't be upgrading if your version # (including the revision) is higher than that in the archive. My guess is that a new revision is showing up in the archive and thus being upgraded. The best way to prevent this is to use 'epochs' -- set your version to something like 3:1,2-1 in the changelog. Steve
