devel libc6 hosed my sendmail

[Ian Marlier <ian@onepost.net>]

I upgraded my system to the newest libc6 in order to get iptables to
work, and discovered 2 things:
1) iptables still doesn't work
and
2) sendmail is broken now, because of the berkeley DB 2 problem.

But I can't just use apt or dpkg or something to go back to the
stable version of libc6, because everything and its mother depends on
ip.  When I tried, the list of things that would have to be removed
included all of my shells, everything in /usr/local, basically
everything except the kernel itself.

So I'm wondering if there's a way to recover from this, preferably
one that doesn't require reinstalling teh whole system ground up.

Thanks,

Ian

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