Re: upgrade queries
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> Forgive me for reintroducing a topic which has probably been done to
> death on the list in recent months, but I had to unsubscribe for most
> of the summer-months and haven't seem recent postings.
>
> I'm currently running Debian 1.3. I have the 2.0 binary CD and also
> the CD_autoup.sh script written by Craig Sanders. I'm hesitating about
> the upgrade though and I was wondering if someone could take the time
> to answer two questions:
>
> 1. What improvement in performance (or kinds of improvement) should
> I expect to notice?
Many more packages.
>
> 2. I have in /usr/local a number of non-debian programs that I use a
> lot and that I'm very attached to (xv, rv_player). What are the
> chances that they would be broken because of the library upgrade?
Since the upgrade keeps libc5 on your system, there should be no problems.
I don't recall if the upgrade removes libc4 (a.out), but if you have any
binaries requiring libc4, you should probably replace them anyway.
I've done upgrades using both autoup.sh and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' with
only minor problems.
Bob
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