FW: [Malvern] Hypothetical question for gurus.

[Ian Pascoe]

Things would get broken - remember that although a distro is based on a
particular package, the new distro tweaks the original one in subtle enough
ways that it would be hard to guess the results of such a thing.  For
instance, looking at libraries these are probably the one area where most
breakages would occur as the 2 distros could well be functioning at 2
different version levels today, you get an upgrade from the parent site that
still relies on the old version, but hey presto it won't work because your
distro uses a different version at install - got that?  <reaches for Anadin>

But then, apart from a fresh install it would be such a mess.  It might even
keep Rik occupied for a while ....!

Was there a reason behind the question, or just pure mayhem?

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Richard Forster
Sent: 26 February 2007 21:52
To: MLUG
Subject: Re: [Malvern] Hypothetical question for gurus.


Nothing.

You didn't state that you would run apt-get, therefore I claim the
answer truly is 'nothing' and would like to know what prize I win.

Yours grinning lots.

Rick

As for what happens when you do run apt-get blah, I have no idea but I'd
sure google can help.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=369377
appeared on the first page of my search.

In related news I know RHEL can be upgraded to Centos in a similar
manner when the subscription runs out. But then it is just a logo swap
and recompile.



Geoff Bagley wrote:
> Supposing I were to install Ubuntu on a machine,  and then edit the
> /etc/apt/sources.list  file  to the  pure Debian mirrors,  i.e.,  not
> the Ubuntu ones.
>
> Any idea what might happen ?
>
> Best regards.
>
> Geoff.
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