Thread: How to prevent HAM and/or apt-get from upgrading package?
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pali is offline pali
2013-10-29 , 21:32
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#6
Originally Posted by reinob View Post
I guess for mp-fremantle-generic-pr we/one could use equivs to create a dummy package. This way you effectively replace the package without breaking the packaging system (which is what you do by editing dpkg status -- but kudos to you for doing that
Depending on that metapackage is bad idea. It means that for your app you need full Maemo system... which is for obviois reason not correct...

And there are 12 different (or maybe more??) metapackages (for each region variant) plus for CSSU.

If your package needs PR1.3 then it needs only some specific PR1.3 feature e.g. new menu provided by hildon-desktop... So depends on new hildon-desktop package.


And please do not start creating new dummy packages for fixing our totally broken packaging system. It will lead to even big hell as it is now.
 

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