Re: Upgrading ghostscript?
On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 05:44:43PM -0400, Scott Ellis wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Britton wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > > It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for so
> > > long...
> >
> > Yes this is a shame. I guess the switch had to be made sometime, but I
> > can't help feeling that it wouldn't have hurt to put it off a bit more.
>
> RedHat is also working on upgrading to libc6 (of course they have people
> paid to recompile everything). The difference is, Debian has never hidden
> its development stuff, so you notice it. I think that the libc6 upgrade
> is going reasonably smoothly, if you want to do it, my mini-howto is a
> reasonably bulletproof method of doing it.
I upgraded to unstable and it went *very smooth*. The mini-HOWTO is a *very*
useful and important resource to get all things in place.
But you should wait a day or two before upgrading a fresh uploaded package,
in case there are some ugly flaws... :)
Just a "Hey you are doing a nice thing there!"
Marcus
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Marcus Brinkmann
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