Re: Once again: libc6 packages compatibility etc...
David Engel wrote:
> It doesn't appear that RedHat is doing anything special. They haven't
> changed the names of any packages and also don't appear to have any
> equivalent to our -altdev packages. I wonder if they've done anything
> with their package dependencies to ensure users don't wind up with
> mixed libc5 and libc6 setups. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't.
> FWIW, I remember reading that their 4.8 beta does NOT yet support
> upgrading an existing system.
That's right, and also, the only way redhat does support upgrading (once it
works ;-) is by booting off a floppy and upgrading the whole system at one
go. Still I think they will run into problems with contrib packages that are
not updated to libc6.
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