custom repositories and pinning

[William Hamra]

Hello List,
i have a few packages that i like to build from source every while and
install them on the system. recently, i started converting them to deb
packages to get a cleaner install, since i noticed, for example firefox,
will install to a different directory every version, with a deb package,
it will clean the old installation and put the new one. this has been
working good, until today, i noticed something while doing a full
upgrade. the system wants to download and install amarok. amarok is one
of the packages i build from source as well, but apparently, my
versioning scheme is slightly different than ubuntu's, they add a "2:"
in from of every version, anyways... i decided to put all my deb
packages in one place, my local webserver accessed on 127.0.0.1, it's
working. now i just need a way of telling apt or aptitude to ALWAYS
favour a package in my own archive, regardless of the version number in
the other repos. i saw in the pinning HowTo in ybuntu's website how i
can decrease the priority of a an apt source, but i'd rather not
decrease the priority of several important sources. i would like to know
if incresing priority of my own archive will do the trick, and if so, to
how much shall i increase it?
-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
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