Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:40:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
[...]
> > Don't upgrade one only package from potato because potato depends on
> > glibc2.1 and some packages on perl5.005.
>
> No, feel free to install any package from *any* debian distribution onto
> *any* other, so long as the dependancies allow you to do so. Debian intends
> for these things to work.
It was so. But glibc2.0 and 2.1 can't coexist. Old binary perl modules can't
coexist with perl5.005. You can expect unpredictable crashes during upgrade
(as I did yesterday).
I can suggest full upgrade to potato (but it isn't easy now).
Mirek
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