On 03 Nov 2003 15:05:56 -0500 Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote: > I finally convinced a sysadmin friend of mine that Debian was the way > and the light. Great, you are rigth! [...] > What started the chain of events was that a fairly routine minor bug > bit the latest libc6 release. He's an experienced sysadmin though and > wasn't the least bit fazed by that. What drove him batty was that it > was so hard to recover from the mess and all the obvious avenues just > made the problem worse. [...] I did have the problem today! ;) So first, it's really a bad idea to merge stable, testing and unstable, especially with libraries! A better thing to do is to backport the package so it can fit in stable. The problem with recent libc6 is libdb1-compat. The solution is to download the old libc6 and install it with: # dpkg --force-overwrite -i libc6_version_arch.deb # dpkg --purge libdb1-compat and then, I did reinstall libc6 (to be sure but I don't know if it's needed). Even with some bugs, Debian is the good way ;) Best regards, -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** : :' : Arnaud Vandyck `. `' http://people.debian.org/~avdyk/ `-
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