3rd party packages etc after upgrade to hoary

[Frank McCormick]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:16:18 +0000
Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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."
>

  This is sort of strange - I am still running Warty..and I have
packages now listed as local or obsolete. This stated just lately,
within the past few weeks. Most of the packages in that listing are
thingh like CDRECORD  EVolution, MC (Midnight commander). I don't know
why it started doing this. 


Frank