RE: uppgrading packages to unstable versions
On 21-Apr-99 Ulrik Haugen wrote:
> I followed a link to
> http://www.uk.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2
>
> It said one ought to upgrade a few packages to the unstable versions
> to run a 2.2.x kernel.
>
> I downloaded these and ran dpkg -i <package.deb>,
> downloaded a few more as dpkg complaind about dependencies, and
> when I thought I'd gotten enough packages I ran dselect and
> chose Install.
>
unstable is now based on a new glibc. So if you want to migrate to it, tell
dselect (or apt) to update based on the unstable directory and download the 40
- 80 some megs of updated packages.
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