breezy xorg 6.9/7

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 18:41 -0500, Jimmy Abraham wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 18:05, Jimmy Abraham wrote:
> > Well, just as an FYI...
> > I added this to my sources
> > deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
> > Did an
> > apt-get --compile source xserver-xorg
> > And now have some nice xorg-7 debs.  I don't know if I will go any further
> > on my workstation, I'll probably get a test system up before I do anything
> > else...
> 
> Scrap the previous...  This seriously broke stuff...  :)
> However, just adding 
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
> and apt-get update && apt-get install xserver-xorg is working.  But I have a 
> feeling I will end up with a pretty unstable system mixing repositories like 
> this.  I have read somewhere before where you can mix reps for different 
> version of the same packages, but I don't remember how that worked.
> Something for another day...

Yeah you might as well just upgrade to dapper - it's been really stable
here for months.  If something goes wrong you can always downgrade
again.

Lee

> 
> >
> > Anyhow, no one has to tell me this will break stuff, I am quite aware of
> > that, I was hoping someone would have some ideas on how to do this and NOT
> > break stuff.    :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > JImmy
> >
> > > Lee
>