apt takes my packages back to normal version

[Travis Watkins]

On Dec 30, 2007 8:09 AM, Andrea Ratto <andrearatto_liste at yahoo.it> wrote:
> I am using the versioning convention suggested in the ppa quick start
> guide, but some of my package get 'upgraded' back to the version in the
> official repo by apt.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> andrea at andrea-laptop:~$ LANG='' apt-cache policy libccid
> libccid:
>   Installed: 1.3.0-2ubuntu1~ppa1
>   Candidate: 1.3.0-2ubuntu1
>   Version table:
>      1.3.0-2ubuntu1 0
>         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages
>  *** 1.3.0-2ubuntu1~ppa1 0
>         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net gutsy/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> I am just recompiling the official package with different options or
> small patches, do I have to change the ubuntuX version?
> Thanks.
>
>

You're supposed to use ubuntu2~ppa1 that way you're newer than ubuntu1
but any ubunu2 update will replace your copy (until you update to
ubuntu3~ppa1).


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