Re: Everyone please compile a static apt & dpkg ;-)
Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:
>
> Joey> Sure, I can understand why a static apt and/or dpkg may be
> Joey> necessary. I mean, we had them for slink and earlier
> Joey> releases as well; this is not a new problem or a new idea.
>
> Jason> I don't think we did have them for slink, or any other
> Jason> versions. Ben/Me produced versions that were library
> Jason> compatible with the last release.
>
> Yes, we had slink-compiled dynamically linked versions of apt, but
> no statically-linked versions in the past.
Ok. Same basic problem being addressed though. A statically linked
version might make more sense even, if you want to use it to upgrade
from multiple different old versions of debian.
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