<p>Hi,<br>
if you build the B packages yourself, let them provide the name of A. I didnt do packaging a while but it is possible that package a provides b.</p>
<p>Not sure how to achieve the right priority, though. <br>
Maybe let the new repository have higher priority in apt pinning?</p>
<p>Henning</p>
<p>Am 25.05.2011 09:03 schrieb "Steffen Grunewald" <<a href="mailto:steffen.grunewald@aei.mpg.de">steffen.grunewald@aei.mpg.de</a>>:<br type="attribution">> We're in the process of replacing some packages ("A") by specially built <br>
> ones ("B"), which will be named slightly differently, to avoid confusion.<br>> For FAI this means that we want to<br>> "install package B if it already exists, otherwise use A".<br>> How can this be achieved?<br>
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