Re: Need advice for mixed Woody/Sid system
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On Freitag, 24. Januar 2003 20:13, Felix Homann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as I have mentioned a couple of times on the list I'm using a mixed
> Woody/Sid system, and I don't think I'm the only one here.
> One of the main reasons for going for such a mixed system was to get an
> up-to-date KDE when no such Woody packages were available.
>
> Now that the gcc-3.2 transition is going on I seem to be trapped a little.
> I'm currently using Ralf's Woody packages without (m)any problems. But as
> indicated by Ralf in another message in this list this might not hold
> anymore
>
> after the next "apt-get upgrade":
> > Yes, you're using unstable. X has been rebuild, Qt didn't yet and if it
> > does things get even more complicated. It's surely due to the gcc-3.2
> > transition.
>
> I am using X from unstable and apt-get wants to upgrade it. Even some KDE
> stuff wants to get an upgrade.
>
> What shall I do? In order to get a comfortable upgrade I would have to
> upgrade all this stuff. Will this break my KDE installation? Should I pin
> some packages? (How?) Should I simply wait?
There is XFree 4.2.1 available backported for woody. My opinion for a really
stable system with current software is to use backports from woody where
necessary (which is what I do, I assumed that everyone did the same and used
the xfree 4.2.1 backport for woody).
As soon as it's possible to build xfree 4.3 packages for woody I intend to do
that because that will enable us to use the new stuff like animated cursors
and such; also KDE will contain a set of features that will only be usable
with xfree 4.3.
Ralf
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Felix
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