Re: Filesystem and archive changes

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

Quoting Santiago Vila (sanvila@unex.es):
> What kind of coexistency are you taliking about?
> 
> glibc 2.1 is backwards compatible with 2.0 so you install libc6_2.1
> and libc6_2.0.7 is automatically replaced (and packages previously using
> 2.0 will work fine with 2.1).

So far, every 2.1 debian package I've tried has completely hosed my test
system (a dx4 100) with scads of 'illegal instruction' errors. I sent an
email asking whether the .deb's were pentium-specific or something, but
never heard anything.

Mike Stone