Ah yes, I didn't think of that...

2009/1/27 Andrew Williams <[email protected]>

> I think we'll have issues with prefixing packages, It would
> effectively kill the dependancy tree as some packages depend on a
> specific version.
>
> I think we should avoid modifying version numbers / package names
> wherever possible. Best would be to suffix the packages as above, but
> then using APT pinning to correct the priorities for our repo.
>
> With Apt pinning we can esure that if we have a package by the same
> name in our repo, it will always be selected as first choice for
> installation, and upgrades in the lower pinned repo (ubuntu's) will be
> ignored. If the package doesn't exist in ours then it'll use ubuntu's.
>
> I'm reading up on the documentation now (it's been a while!) and i'll
> let you know how I go on.
>
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> Andrew Williams / Nik_Doof
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