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Re: upgrade glibc on Sarge



Hans du Plooy <hansdp-lists@sagacit.com> writes:

> I'm trying to install amavisd-new 2.4 on Sarge, using the testing
> repositry.  It wants to upgrade a few packages, most notably perl and
> glibc.  How safe is this?  I know there's always risk, but is there a
> reasonable chance that this will not break anything (I'm only running
> apache, mysql, postfix and courier on the box.

I'm not so sure that safe (not sure the differences are between the
glibc in Sarge and Etch).  You might be better off using the backports,
www.backports.org, which are newer packages compiled for stable.

-- 
John L. Fjellstad
web: http://www.fjellstad.org/          Quis custodiet ipsos custodes



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