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 it didn't support my video card, so > installed a new copy of X from a tarball. What will happen to such > installations when I upgrade, does anyone know? > > > -- > Gary
Did you make your own .deb packages from the tar balls? Then you are lucky otherwise dpkg/apt wount see them at all. Frank
