Re: Proposed recompilation to remove dependency on libc6 2.0.7u
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 10:40:55AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:32:12PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > > If older packages will work with the newer libc, the user just has to install
> > > ^^^^^^^^
> > > > libc6 first. This will be automatically handled by dselect and apt-get, right?
> > >
> > > No, we can't be sure that the user will use apt, since apt was not the
> > > standard installation method in hamm.
> >
> > But dselect is the standard installation method.
>
> Also let me add that I did an install of the sparc libc6 2.0 base that
> updated to the 2.1 and it broke the whole system and had to be
> reinstalled. It's not that simple.
This is a different problem. Some glibc 2.0 and 2.1, pre2.1 versions
are not compatible with each other. This is not the case with the
libc6 for i386 in slink.
Regards... Joey
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