On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:29:15PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> Even if you know *exactly* what you are doing, do not reference a Debian
> repository on an Ubuntu machine.
um, why?
> The resultant errors will be subtle,
> unpredictable, and quite possibly unstable.
but not any different than using packages from debian testing on a woody
machine. in fact, i don't see why there should be a problem that will
not be blocked by dependencies.
> Both systems refer to
> packages with an identical naming system, but there is no guarantee that
> the packages themselves would be identical, or even compatible.
if they are not identical, they will have a different version.
(those that have ubuntu specific changes clearly have ubuntu somewhere
in the package version string.)
warty and hoary are just different collections of debian packages, just
as woody, sarge and sid are. all of those are in a different state of
flux, and normaly you should not mix them.
but that applies to installing hoary packages on warty just as well as
taking sid packages into sarge, and it equally applies to taking from
sarge into warty.
what really matters are dependencies.
if you can install a package without any conflicts then you can normally
expect it to run. if it doesn't then that package was not good to begin
with.
greetings, martin.
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