On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:55:42PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > >each of woody, sarge, warty and hoary represent a different snapshot of > >the debian universe. > Yes, except for the case where ubuntu/* packages (warty, hoary, etc) > have had modifications made that are not accepted by Debian. At which > point the package diverges, albeit only slightly.
here is the ubuntu faq entry regarding this issue: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/helpcenterfaq.2004-09-15.7453904394 the following two are also interresting: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/upgrade-sarge http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/upgrade-woody greetings, martin. -- offering experience: sTeam, caudium, pike, roxen and unix sysadmin doing: programming, training and administration. anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
