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I have installed a package into my own debian package repository like so:

$ sudo reprepro -b /var/packages/ubuntu includedeb maverick my-package_0.8-0_all.deb 
my-package_0.8-0_all.deb: component guessed as 'main'
Exporting indices...

I have installed my package on a few machines using apt-get install.

I have now added new features to my software and would like to add a new minor version of my package to the repository so that I may update my machines using apt-get upgrade.

I try to do this like so:

$ sudo reprepro -b /var/packages/ubuntu includedeb maverick my-package_0.9-0_all.deb 
my-package_0.9-0_all.deb: component guessed as 'main'
Skipping inclusion of 'my-package' '1.0-0' in 'maverick|main|i386', as it has already '1.0-0'.
Skipping inclusion of 'my-package' '1.0-0' in 'maverick|main|amd64', as it has already '1.0-0'.

It looks like I need to tell reprepro that this is a new version of the same package but I have no idea how to do this. I have read the reprepro man page several times and searched on the net for a couple of hours but I have not found any answers.

Am I missing something?

Many thanks.

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Reprepro is not able to hold two versions of a package in the same distribution.

See answer to question 3.1 here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120103201823/http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=mirrorer/reprepro.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/FAQ;hb=HEAD

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When you build your dpkg, you should increment the package version as per here.

The Debian Revision Number (the -xxx at the end of packages) is the one you should increment.

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  • Thanks for your suggestion but changing the number at the end of the package did not help my problem. I tried first adding a package my-package_1.0-0_all.deb and then my-package_1.0-1_all.deb but got exactly the same error as above saying that it already has 1.0-0.
    – kai
    Jun 20, 2011 at 20:43
  • Dropping the _all also made no difference.
    – kai
    Jun 20, 2011 at 20:52
  • what's the "skipping inclusion" line when you try to add your new package version?
    – Michael Lowman
    Jun 21, 2011 at 3:27
  • The skipping inclusion line is where reprepro is trying to add my-package_0.9-0_all.deb as version 1.0-0 and finding that it is already in the repository. I would really like to be able to tell reprepro that this is a new version of an existing package! That is my problem.
    – kai
    Jun 21, 2011 at 7:41
  • When you say "Changing the number at the end", do you mean changing the file name or editing the version number in the control file?
    – theotherreceive
    Jun 21, 2011 at 9:27

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