3rd party packages etc after upgrade to hoary

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:32:32 -0500, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> When you upgrade from Warty to Hoary, what becomes of any 3rd party
> packages and repositories you were using? Particularly, I upgraded by
> just blanking my sources.list file and replacing it with a clean hoary
> sources file (replacing all instances of warty with hoary didn't work,
> I don't remember the exact erro). So what became of those packages?
> Are they still installed? Is there a way to see them and remove them,
> perhaps replacing them with hoary equivalents?
> 
> Currently I don't seem to have any 3rd party packages in synaptic,
> except for some jrfronseca one, don't know where that came from.
> Basically I'm starting to get confused about the package management
> here.

The version of synaptic in Hoary is a little different (or at least I
just noticed this feature in Hoary). You can list packages by
"status," one of which is "Local or Obsolete." It will show you those
packages that didn't come from the Hoary repositories. Anything I
already had installed remained after I dist-upgraded, they were just
listed in synaptic as "local."

-Eamonn