On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 09:21, Elm Gysel wrote: > Hi! > > I needed to recompile Exim with different settings so I got the sources and > the diff file and recompiled it and made my own .deb package of it > (debian/rules binary). > > This is the latest stable release. > > Now when I do a 'apt-get upgrade' apt-get reinstalls Exim. The funny thing is > is that the version I compiled is the same version number as the one that he > installs. Is there some way to tell apt-get not to overwrite my compiled > package which has the same version number?
You can put your version of Exim "on hold" (man dpkg): from root you can try 'cat "exim hold" | dpkg --set-selections' or you can use dselect... Andrea -- Should define myself as an IT consultant? -- Andrea Vettorello
