2009/2/28 Remco remco47@gmail.com:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ben Klein shacklein@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.