Re: libc6 upgrade

["David Z. Maze" <dmaze@donut.mit.edu>]

Clare Johnstone <clare@ucs.uwa.edu.au> writes:
CJ> On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:
 EC> AJT60@student.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
  AT> Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can
  AT> I just blithely replace the library?
 EC> 
 EC> As long as you aren't talking about a libc5 to libc6 upgrade,
 EC> then go ahead and let dselect/apt do their thing.
CJ> 
CJ> And as I am quite paranoid - won't .. daren't.. use dselect.. 
CJ> what is the answer then?

Upgrades between versions of libc6 are safe.  It's okay to download an 
updated libc6 package and install it using dpkg (essentially what
dselect does anyways).

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