Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

[J Horacio MG <homega@vlc.servicom.es>]

~> In article <[🔎] XFMail.990510235837.pollywog@shadypond.com> you wrote:
~> 
~> : On 10-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote:
~> :> I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I
~> :> expect it can be found in potato).  My question is, do I have to expect
~> :> any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward
~> :> as upgrading any other package?
~> 
~> : If you upgrade a slink installation to libc6 2.1.1, you will probably have
~> : some problems.  I know I did, and I went back to libc6 2.07
~> 
~> : I suppose you could upgrade to potato and avoid the problems.  
~> 
~> : If you try it on a slink system, do not go back from the potato version of
~> : ld.so to the slink version or you will break the system; I just kept the newer
~> : ld.so when I went back to the older libc6.
~> 
~> Do not upgrade only libc6.  It will break your system if you do.  If
~> you want to upgrade to libc6, upgrade all the way to potato.

So, what's the list of what should be upgraded?  I would imagine that
the first thing to do is to compile and run a 2.2.x kernel, the entire
potato base directory... what else?

I've also seen on this thread someone saying about the need to upgrade
the X system... to xfree 3.3.3?

Horacio.