RE: Wisdom of mixing stable + unstable/testing?
On 30-Mar-2001 Charles Thornhill-Cole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If one were to install the libc6 package from unstable on top of a stable
> install, would it break things? how badly?
>
> There are a couple of packages from unstable and testing that I would like to
> use on a production server running stable. Should I just compile them and
> play it safe?
>
you definately want to backport them. the libc in each of potato, woody and
sid are different and could have little hidden issues with regards to
compatibility.
Most packages nowadays have a Build-Depends line in the control file. Install
the items listed there and the package should build just fine.
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