Re: Distro upgrade
On 12/19/2013 07:39 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
>> Jessie is at least a year from release. There are still major changes
>> planned for it. I expect Jessie to go through some cyclic stability,
>> instability, stability, instability before it releases at least a year
>> from now.
> There is no need for him to "track" Jessie once he has upgraded enough
> to run his program. Just read the security list and upgrade individual
> packages as needed.
>
> In fact, it might make the most sense for him to upgrade only the
> dependencies of his program while leaving everything else alone.
Thanks, John. That does make some sense. The effected packages are
libffi and glibc. Apparently the version of glibc in Wheezy is 2.11 and
what the hopper package wants is 2.14/2.15. I did see where some newer
distros were going to eglibc, which makes this a bit more confusing. Is
it possible for me to upgrade glibc/libffi to the Jessie release and
leave everything else in Wheezy?
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Jack
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