Re: Upgrading from 2.1r4 to 2.2

2001-08-30 Thread Vittorio
F Zimmermann [debian-user] 29/08/01 18:10 +0100: 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

Re: Upgrading from 2.1r4 to 2.2

2001-08-30 Thread garyjones
F Zimmermann wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Gary Jones wrote: 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. Did you make your own .deb

Upgrading from 2.1r4 to 2.2

2001-08-29 Thread Gary Jones
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

Re: Upgrading from 2.1r4 to 2.2

2001-08-29 Thread F Zimmermann
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