Re: glibc 2.3 and updated gcc for woody

[Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:50:53PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:30:24PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft wrote:
> > > Is there an updated version of glibc (2.3) and gcc for woody?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Cole
> > 
> > There is no updated anything for woody.
> > 
> > But, you can install the libc6, libdb1_compat, gcc-3.3, etc from woody:
> > 
> > ~/homework/2004/09 %% dpkg -s libc6 gcc-3.3 base-files ; cat /etc/debian_version 
> > Package: libc6
> > ...
> > Version: 2.3.2-4
> > ...
> > 
> > Package: gcc-3.3
> > ...
> > Version: 1:3.3.2-0pre2
> > ...
> Donno how you got those but woody does not include gcc-3.3, gcc 3.3 was
> released long after woody.

Mistypage - I downloaded the latest version from
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main.

IIRC, that is unstable.

WARNING: Upgrading libc will cause your hard drives to violate the laws
         of physics. Take a look at this df output:
	 
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6            -56995908899k  1.0k  0.0k  69% /
/dev/hda7            -2517482356645k  1.0k  0.0k  84% /usr
/dev/hda1            -8113244456k  1.0k  0.0k  67% /boot
/dev/hda8            -780491812383k  1.0k  0.0k  96% /home
/dev/hdb1            -351934235768k  1.0k  0.0k  20% /var
/dev/hdb2            -732883846947k  1.0k  0.0k   2% /tmp
/dev/hda2            -2096916525k  1.0k  0.0k  10% /msdos

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