2009/2/28 Remco <remc...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Except that the first package would be technically outside of the >> repository, and would have the same version as the one in the >> repository. This COULD make the package manager think there's an >> update that needs to be downloaded when it doesn't. > > No, it's exactly the same package. The installer of every .deb package > just has an additional file "winehq.list" with the following contents: > > deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt intrepid main > > Which must be installed into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. Also, the > scripting capabilities of .deb packages should make it possible to add > the authentication key. > > The same goes for .rpm and their respective updating mechanism. It's > like the packages sanitize their environment.
Sorry, but I have worked with this situation, and whether or not the packages are identical does not change what I said before. The package manager can think that the version from the repository should replace the locally-installed version.