howto upgrade hamm -> potato
I am using a weird hamm dist with a self compiled kernel (2.0.10), and
some other software which wasn't available as packages with the features I
needed (postfix, ssh2, perl, apache-ssl ...).
How could I upgrade to potato without running in conflicts with
dependencies? E. g. there will be probably a lot of conflicts with my own
perl which isn't recognized as a debian package.
I heard about a package called equivs which could be used to create faked
debian packages. Can I use this package to tell the debian system that
there is already a MTA (postfix) and a perl interpreter (in /usr/local)?
How do I use apt-get to upgrade? Is it sufficient just to enter
apt-get dist-upgrade
and everything will get upgraded to the latest versions (stable or
unstable)?
TIA, Werner
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