Re: glibc2.1

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 05:34:46AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> Now that potato is delayed until next year I think I
> should try upgrading to glibc2.1 at least.  There are
> just too many fine programs out on freshmeat that
> require 2.1 over 2.0.  I know that it's been posted
> before, but I've lost the url... can someone repeat
> the procedure to upgrade slink to glibc2.1?  I can
> live with the 2.0.38 kernel for now, about the only
> thing I think I'll miss would be USB and at the moment
> I only have a mouse....

IMHO, the safest way to upgrade to glibc 2.1 IS to upgrade to potato.

The delay was mainly because of the remaining work needed for
boot-floppies, which won't affect those upgrading.

1.  Point /etc/apt/sources.list to "unstable" instead of "stable".
2.  apt-get update
3.  apt-get dist-upgrade

Run step 3 repeatedly if you get errors.  This may at times be
necessary, as the stability of potato varies from day to day.  Now is
probably a good time as console-data was fixed in yesterday's update
and the dependencies for console-apt are now satisfied.

I've been running potato on one of my systems for over six months and
it's had a few problems but has never been completely hosed.  On the
other hand, I don't intend to upgrade my remotely-located server box
(web, mail, amateur packet radio gateway) until a month or so after
potato is released.

You could try just installing libc6 2.1.2-10 and its dependencies, but
I understand that SOME binaries are not upwardly compatible with the
newer version.

Bob

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