> Sorry, I've got myself all confused. > > I've got some samba packages which I've recompiled. > samba-common-3.0.14a-3sarge1SBC > > Now that samba-common-3.0.14a-3sarge2 is out, this is overriding my own > package. > > Which is fine. I understand. I just need to pin the packages with a > priority of 1001 and apt won't upgrade them. > > But it doesn't work. I'm fcopy-ing /etc/apt/preferences, and > post-install an aptitude upgrade downgrades to my local package. Which > is nice. But I want fai to prefer my local package. > > I suspect I need to modify /etc/apt/preferences on the fai server - is > this right, and do I need to do a make-fai-nfsroot after? > > I'm sure it's in the docs or on the mailing list, but sometimes, you > know, you just can't SEE it? >
If I got your situation right, all you need to do is fcopy-ing /etc/apt/preferences _before_ the actual package installation begins. You might want to use a hook like updatebase.DEFAULT to do so. HTH, Michael
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