Easy way to go to hoary?

Peter Damoc pdamoc at gmx.net
Fri Apr 8 06:11:42 CDT 2005


On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:13:51 +0300, Rui Tiago Matos <tiagomatos at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Apr 8, 2005 6:33 AM, Peter Damoc <pdamoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>> This would be great indeed BUT it still doesn't solve the problem of a
>> "custom" machine. I've installed some games for my brother and upgrading
>> to Hoary means that those games will have to be updated too...  
>> however...
>> they are not in "main"... thinking about hunting those dependencies by
>> hand again kinda makes me not wanna update.
>
> Why do they have to be updated? Unless some libraries have become
> binary incompatible, they are generaly backwards compatible, even more
> so when only 6 months separate Hoary from Warty.
>

well, I'm not a linux guru, i guess they might still work... but what if
they don't?

I guess I'll just give it a try and see what happens ;)

Peter.



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