Packages

[vignesh m]

hi!
I have a dialup connection that is not configured in Ubuntu.So I have
dowload the deb packages and then install it Ubuntu.So If I upgrade to
breezy then I would have to download the packages again.Thats a
pain.Sinceon dialup and downloading everything again.
Cheers
Vignesh

On 9/28/05, Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 27/09/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> >
> > > On 27/09/05, vignesh m <feduntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Hi!
> > >> Can the packages downloaded for hoary be installed and used in
> > >> breezy?
> > >> Vignesh
> > >
> > > No.
> >
> > Mostly No :-)
>
> Actually, I just looked at this thread again and realize I was reading
> it backwards (my typical mistake). I thought he wanted to download
> Breezy packages and use them on Hoary. I suppose the answer may be:
> Possibly. And any packages downloaded from Hoary will be automatically
> updated at the next apt-get upgrade, assuming they've been installed
> with dpkg. I'm not sure I understand why you would want to do that,
> though.
>
> -Eamonn
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> > derek
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