Eric Mason » apt-get http://ericmason.net From Fort Lauderdale, Ruby, Linux, Photography, and Random Things Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:22:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Apt-get upgrade wants to replace my compiled packages. http://ericmason.net/2009/03/apt-get-upgrade-wants-to-replace-my-compiled-packages/ http://ericmason.net/2009/03/apt-get-upgrade-wants-to-replace-my-compiled-packages/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:16:40 +0000 eric http://ericmason.net/?p=102 Continue reading →]]> I was getting some messages from my daily apt-get upgrade script telling me some of my ffmpeg debs needed to be upgraded.  Since I had recompiled ffmpeg from the source debs with different options, I re-ran apt-get source ffmpeg to get the latest source.   When nothing downloaded, I checked the latest version with apt-cache and found it matched the version I have installed.  Off to Google I went and found this thread from 9 years ago saying the bogus upgrade messages are normal and I had to increment the version number. 

I still want to be notified when new versions come out (via my daily upgrade script) so I can recompile it, so I updated the version as little as possible by adding an “a” to the end of it.  

In the source directory, I edited debian/changelog .  The first line said

 

ffmpeg (3:0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.3) hardy-security; urgency=low

So I changed it to 
ffmpeg (3:0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.3a) hardy-security; urgency=low
Then I ran fakeroot debian/rules binary and installed the resulting packages.  Now apt-get upgrade tells me I have nothing to upgrade.  As long as the ffmpeg package maintainer doesn’t use 3:0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.3a as the new version number, I’ll still know when a new release comes out. 
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