On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:08:54PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2003 07:36:25 -0700 > "Rodney D. Myers" <rdmyers@pe.net> wrote: > > > > Do you want to run anything from unstable? Yes, move to at least > > > testing. > > > > Testing? > > > > Not sure I follow. Still very new to the Debian way? > > You meant you're very new, right? Paul knows his way around Debian pretty > well. > > In the stable branch of Debian gcc is 2.95 and glibc(libc6) is 2.2. In > testing and unstable gcc is 3.2 and glibc is 2.3. These are very basic > changes that affect hundreds (thousands?) of packages. > > It would be very difficult to administer a frankensystem that runs some > stuff with libc6 2.2 and other stuff with libc6 2.3 (if it's even possible). I put "Apt::Default-Release='stable'" along with the testing listings in /etc/apt/sources.list. I did it to get bogofilter. About 6 extra packages came along (I think libc6 2.2 was one of them) but the system seemed perfectly happy to keep both libc6s around. I havn't seen any problems. Is there something lurking that's going to bite me? -ben p.s. what are the backport packages called, and how does one find them (for something like bogofilter, for example)? -- Ben Hartshorne email: ben@hartshorne.net http://ben.hartshorne.net
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