Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:22, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > You explain to the common man not to use unstable. :)
> >
> > It *certainly* shouldn't have broken in the first place, but accidents
> > happen. If one doesn't have enough system administration experience to
> > cope with this kind of thing (after all, it was "just" everything
> > written in C++ that broke, not, say, the dynamic linker as I'm told used
> > to happen, or PAM preventing all logins, or ...), then unstable is
> > really not the distribution one should be running.
>
> Yes, I remember the PAM incident back in early 2001. That was much
> nastier than this C++ problem. One had to switch to single user mode,
> then download and install a corrected package from incoming.
>
> > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those
> > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only
> > people who should be using unstable.
>
> I have to agree. I hit the C++ problem yesterday afternoon when I did my
> daily Sid update. It was annoying, but not that hard to work around. I
> considered symlinking it to the nearest-match version of the same
> library, but decided it was probably a more certain fix to just
> downgrade to the previous libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package. Anyone who
> couldn't figure out how to do that without help probably should stick to
> testing rather than unstable. Otherwise, the next time something nasty
> happens in Sid, they may find that they don't know what to do, and all
> the usual resources (Debian lists and web pages) are unreachable because
> of the breakage. What then?
>
> Craig
Me, I keep a minimal woody on another partition :)
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