Re: Ubuntu to Debian

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Mike Bird wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 08:03, Kent West wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> > As I understand it, Brooks, Ubuntu is close enough to Debian that a 
> > conversion is possible. Yes, edit your sources.list and do an 
> > update/dist-upgrade; you may have to uninstall some stuff along the way 
> > and then reinstall it.
>
>
> Ubuntu recompiles many Debian packages and changes the dependencies
> but not the package versions or library sonames.  This means that
> during an Ubuntu->Debian dist-upgrade apt may think a Debian
> package is already in place when you still have the Ubuntu version.

Not exactly the same but I use some packages from Ubuntu when they are 
newer than/ not available in debian amd64.  I use apt_preferences to 
give the packages with origin Ubuntu a lower priority than those from 
debian so that packages with the same version will always be from debian.

tim@home:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package:*
Pin: origin "ubuntu"
Pin-Priority: -100

Could help you get rid of most of the Ubuntu packages.  Man 
apt_preferences for more details.

HTH

Wackojacko