Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this will work. The system is currently a libc5
> "bo" system. I want it to become a "slink" system. I can't just use
> dpkg to install the potato version of apt, because it's a libc6
> version. I would need to install potato-apt using apt. In the
> process apt would presumably upgrade the system (correctly) to libc6.
> But it would be a "potato" upgrade. How would I then downgrade back
> to slink? --- my ultimate goal.
Yes, it is more difficult, you'd have to do it in stages :| Install libc6
and libstdc++2.9 using the apt you have now then install the potato apt by
hand.
Jason
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