Backport

[Steve]

On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:23:14 +0100, ABSDoug <absdoug at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I don't understand backporting. Why isn't backporting enabled  
> automaticly? ARE THERE risks with backporting? Thanks ahead of time.
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Yes.

Backports are basically newer, upstream, versions of programs. Often they  
use newer library routines etc.  If you you’re current system uses lib_2.6  
and that is replaced by lib_2.8 for the newer program, all the programs  
currently on the system that require lib_2.6 are going to be broken.
Sometimes newer programs use different config files or save data in a  
different format. If you’ve got some essential software that relies on  
this data, you’d have to rewite you’re software to continue functioning.


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Steve (Yorvyk)
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