Ubuntu
update-manager package

own compiled programs appears as upgrading needed

Bug #113272 reported by Abraham J. Palma López
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

When you download source code of a debian package, compile and install in your own, with dpkg, you may have the newest version of that program, although the upgrade manager assures that you need to upgrade. I.e. i have reinstalled amule 2.1.3 following this steps:
  sudo apt-get build amule
  sudo apt-get source -b amule
  sudo dpkg -i amule.2.1.3.*****.i386.deb (can't remember exact name)

and then i found that upgrade manager says
 amule 2.1.3 needs to upgrade to amule 2.1.3

As i think this will reinstall the repositories binary, and i just want to keep the custom made for my amd k7, amule, i can't use normally the upgrade manager. The upgrade utility should know that i prefer to keep my own compiled version, until new version arrives (as 2.1.4), maybe asking me once. Probably this is a problem with apt-get upgrade more than the upgrade manager gui, but i think it can be solved with the last one.

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Harrison Conlin (harrisony) wrote :

Hi there, This is how APT/DPKG manages packages picking the ubuntu ones first, i reccomend you lock the packages and then it shouldn't upgrade them

Changed in update-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Abraham J. Palma López (tu-79) wrote : RE: [Bug 113272] Re: own compiled programs appears as upgrading needed

oh, ok. As you say i think it's not a bug. But maybe a functionality apt should have. i mean, i need to know if there is a new version of the programs i have compiled myself. well, i don't really 'need' it, but since update manager lets you know when a new version of your installed programs has been released, it's a good idea that it does the same for every package you may have installed with dpkg.
  i am not a programmer but i think something like 'Check only version number' may work.
  Then, someone could download source code, compile, make and install the debian package of, say, version 1.0.0, without bothering at 'force version' for that package, not having the upgrade manager asking him to upgrade that package that doesn't need upgrade, and asking only when there is actually a new version number. Amazing that apt let you choose between an stable and unstable versions, but forget the packages you want to compile yourself.

  Probably i have mistaken putting that like a bug, but i don't know where i can ask for such functionality.

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

just add a small appendix to the version number of your package (can be modified in debian/changelog).

mine-package-0.1ubuntu1 > mine-package-0.1ubuntu1mine0

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