my own repository

[Scott]

ben darby spake thusly on 12/28/2006 02:48 PM:
> * Scott wrote:
>> 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/
>>
> 
> and as for the repository try falcon, its easy to set up and works a treat
> along with pinning.
> 
> http://seveas.theplayboymansion.net/seveas/dists/edgy-seveas/all/

Yep. It's one of the ones I use.  But in his case he was wanting to 
utilize is own in addition to the standard Ubuntu ones.


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