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I've recently recompiled suPHP from the apt-get source to include several commandline options. After building the pacakge it remains at version 0.7.1-1 and aptitude keeps trying to install over the custom one I've built. How can I update the version to reflect something like 0.7.1-1-marco0 - or something similar to that (like how Ubuntu will occasionally place ubuntu0 or ubuntu1 to a version to indicated an edit to the upstream's source)

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Run dch -i in the source directory to add a new changelog entry. If you update the version line to something like 0.7.1-1ubuntu0+marco1 (the key being the +) it'll sort as being newer than 0.7.1-1 but still older than 0.7.1-1ubuntu1 when Ubuntu releases a security update (since missing security updates is bad)

If you really want to not get security updates for it, you can lock the version of the package with sudo aptitude hold suphp

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  • Thank you for the information. This is exactly what I was looking for. Sep 18, 2010 at 17:35

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