my own repository

[Scott]

Martin Marcher spake thusly on 12/28/2006 04:59 AM:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm maintaining a few servers and was until recently happy with the  
> packages provided in the standard ubuntu repositories.
> 
> However I'd like to use a few packages with custom patches applied  
> for the time beiing I'm either
> 
> a) downloading deb-src installing it and hoping that the ubuntu  
> repositories won't override my installation or
> b) building it totally from source on the various machines.
> 
> Now my target is to have a local repository with the packages that I  
> create (preferrably on a single machine) and add this repository to  
> the sources.list.
> 
> What I'm hoping to achieve would be packages that won't be overriden  
> (using cyrus as an example here).

APT Pinning would be your best bet. You can give your repository 
priority over any others.

$ man apt_preferences

http://www.google.com/search?q=apt+pinning+howto

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/


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