Re: Upgrading from 2.1r4 to 2.2
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Gary Jones wrote:
> Okay, I'm now nearly ready to make the switch - a full, functional
> backup has been taken.
>
> What I haven't seen anywhere is what happens if one has packages
> which are later than what apt-get knows about. For example, I
> installed X from 2.1r4 but found it didn't support my video card, so
> installed a new copy of X from a tarball. What will happen to such
> installations when I upgrade, does anyone know?
>
>
> --
> Gary
Did you make your own .deb packages from the tar balls? Then you are lucky
otherwise dpkg/apt wount see them at all.
Frank
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