Recommended way to deal with locally-compiled apps

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sun Jan 9 09:38:24 UTC 2005


On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:10:40AM +1000, CB wrote:

> Supplementary to this: what happens if I overwrite parts of an existing 
> package with newer files?

Don't do that.  If you need to install it locally, install it in a different
location; do not overwrite files which are "owned" by the packaging system.

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 - mdz




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