Re: Slink to potate upgrade
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I have one very simple question (?!): how safe is to upgrade now from
> slink to potato on debian/sparc?
>
> I tried to do it at the end of march, with many problems. In more detail,
> after upgrading the kernel to kernel-image-2.2.14-sun4cdm and installing
> libc6, I have fallen in a "Conflicts/Pre-depends loop" related to
> perl-base and libdb2, which I have not been able to fix. I have thus
> reverted to a plain slink installation.
I remember running into that while upgrading my sparc to potato. I don't
remember how I did it, though. Just keep in mind that it can be done (I
did it).
> Afterwards, I have read the Ben's e-mails suggesting not to install the
> latest libc6 and libstd++2.10. However, I have not understood yet whether
> this has been fixed and whether it is somehow related to the problems I
> had.
Yes, it has been fixed, and no, it's not related to the problems you're
having.
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