I am using a weird hamm dist with a self compiled kernel (2.0.10), and some other software which wasn't available as packages with the features I needed (postfix, ssh2, perl, apache-ssl ...).
How could I upgrade to potato without running in conflicts with dependencies? E. g. there will be probably a lot of conflicts with my own perl which isn't recognized as a debian package. I heard about a package called equivs which could be used to create faked debian packages. Can I use this package to tell the debian system that there is already a MTA (postfix) and a perl interpreter (in /usr/local)? How do I use apt-get to upgrade? Is it sufficient just to enter apt-get dist-upgrade and everything will get upgraded to the latest versions (stable or unstable)? TIA, Werner
