thanks On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
> Darren Crotchett wrote: > > I had an issue with the cups-filters package on Wheezy. I found that the > > bug was resolved in the unstable branch. But, I wasn't sure how to get > the > > unstable branch version of cups. So, I compiled cups-filters from source > > and installed it on top of my current version (did not uninstall the > > package version first). This fixed my problem. But, now I'm wondering > > what the consequences will be and if there was a better way to handle it. > > > > My reasoning for leaving the apt pkg installed was because I wanted apt > to > > still upgrade when a new version comes out. > > The effects depend upon whether you installed files that are also > installed by the package or if you installed additional files that are > not installed by the package. A lot of package management is cleaning > undesirable cruft out of an upstream installation. > > I am not saying that cups-filters has files that you would have > installed from source that were not in the package. I don't know. > But if it did and if those files were not part of the installed file > list then those files would hang around forever and never be upgraded > nor cleaned because they are out of the control of the package > manager. > > For any files that you did install that are on top of the existing > packaged files then upgrading or reinstalling the package will replace > your files with the package's files. If your local modifications are > just to a subset of the package files then upgrading the package would > completely remove and replace your local modifications. > > Bob >
