Re: APT and stable/unstable packages
since unstabled moved to a new glibc version a couple months ago,
attempting to install virtually any package from unstable will most
likely fail because the glibc does not match.
unless you upgrade your glibc to woody's release, maybe it can run
potato software. if it were my system though i would avoid woody.
but thats me.
nate
Yuri Niyazov wrote:
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> Please reply to my email address also, I am not subscribed to the list yet.
> I am currently running a hacked and hacked-over again old unstable version of 2.2.
> On a separate partition I am now installing 2.2 stable, and have a question: I have an NVidia
> graphics card that requires XFree86 4.0 to run comfortably. For my current setup I installed
> Xfree86 4.0 binary .tgz from their website, replaced the debian xfree86 packages with dummy
> equivalents - used the equivs package if memory serves me right, and had very few problems.
> However, now, to make my maintenance chore easier, I would like to use the XFree86 4.0 packages
> from unstable, but those are the only packages that I want to use, I do not want to install any
> other unstable packages. Re-configuring apt to get unstable doesn't seem to be like a great idea
> since I run apt-get dist-upgrade weekly to get the updates on stable packages, if any. If I leave
> it at unstable, it will convert my system to unstable. I do not know if it is possible to download
> the unstable package list, upgrade a few packages, and then revert to the stable package list -
> what will happen to the packages downloaded from unstable the next time I run apt-get update and
> then dist-upgrade. Also, I wouldn't mind downloading the XFree86 packages manually, but keeping
> track of all of their "requires" manually is error-prone, I don't think I want to attempt that
> again.
>
> Thanks a lot
> Yuri Niyazov
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