a few Qs about debian's apt

From: Woon Wai Keen _at_ doubleukay.com (_at_)
Date: 11/10/03

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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 01:08:47 +0800

    hi,

    a friend of mine has some questions regarding debian. hope you guys could
    help me answer them :)

    1) does 'apt-get upgrade' upgrades:
    i) the kernel,
    ii) base apps
    iii) local apps (/usr/local)

    2) where does apt-get saves all it package information?

    3) is there a way to just upgrade the local apps instead of all
    local/kernel/base at the same time? if so what is the apt-get argument?

    4) what do we do if we need to synchronize the package information manually,
    say for some reason apt-get fails to include version information on newly
    installed package; it's still using the old version although the package has
    been overwritten by the latest version?

    how do debian define non-base apps? in the bsds, non-base apps which is
    called local apps are those not part of the vendor-approved base
    distribution. for example, apache13 is part of openbsd 3.4 base system while
    apache2 isn't so if were i to deploy apache2, it would be defined as local
    apps and be place in /usr/local. apache13, as opposed, is placed in /usr.
    getting back to debian, say for an application that is not part of debian
    base distribution, how do we go about getting apt-get to upgrade them, or
    does debian does not segregate the definitions of base/local apps? any
    program, (say postfix) that is installed regardless whether it's in the
    debian-cd or some other sites are always be defined as base apps or just
    apps, am i right?

    regards,
    wK (www.doubleukay.com) 

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