Re: Upgrading libc6 - what is the impact ??
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 02:30:04PM +0200, John@oa.nl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is probably a difficult question to answer, but what things
> would I break if I upgraded libc6 from slink to potato ??
>
> I would like to run dia-4.0 and the only thing that is stopping
> me is the libc6 version. Included is the output of dpkg.
>
> I could tell if I use dselect, but I dont know how to tell
> dselect (apt) to just use one file from unstable, not the whole
> lot.
>
> Any ideas ??
> John.
I would advise against upgrading to potato for a production machine. It's not
unstable in the wintendo sense, but the packages list changes about every day,
so what's true about it today may not be true in 5 mins.
I don't think glibc2.1 will brake much if anything. When I tried running
potato on my main machine, all it broke was ddd. I'm not sure if that was due
to my incompotence or actually broken stuff, so it's either not a problem or
most-likely fixed (4 months ago). I run potato on all my less-important
machines without problems.
That said, my reccomendation is either: a) build it yourself from the potato
debianized sources (good to learn how to do, and really quite simple) or b)
grab the copy I built at ftp://bolverk.penguinpowered.com/. Either way,
you'll have a glibc2.0 version of dia.
HTH and good luck
-Dano
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