On Monday 02 December 2024 at 23:15:11, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 04:50:21PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> >
> > I want to set up https://github.com/parazyd/amprolla in order to merge a
> > local repository I have with some bespoke packages, with the standard
> > Devuan repository for everything else.

.....

> Hmm; isn't it enough for you to just add a sources.list line for
> including your own local repository?

No, because two of the packages we maintain locally are modified versions of
standard packages (for which the developers / maintainers of aren't interested
in our changes), therefore I want to over-ride those packages in the same way
that Devuan over-rides Debian packages of the same name, to ensure that
certain Debian-native packages never get installed.


Antony.

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