Re: GLIBC 2.4 for Debian Etch
On 2008-01-11 23:37 +0100, David Fox wrote:
> On 1/11/08, Kum Gabor <kumgabor@mediacenter.hu> wrote:
>
>> Does somebody know something easy method of upgrading GLIBC to version 2.4
>> from 2.3.6 without upgrading Etch to Lenny?
>
> I don't see it - and likely there would be too many breakages.
Um, could you elaborate _what_ is going to break? Upgrading the glibc
requires an update of a few other packages that do not work with newer
versions (locales, tzdata, libc6-dev), but that's it. After all, if you
dist-upgrade to a newer Debian version, libc6 is usually one of the first
packages that are upgraded, and a breakage in the middle of an upgrade
because of the newer libc6 is not something that happens very often.
> You're
> better off doing a dist-upgrade to lenny.
Which involves its own risk of breakages. I would rather suggest apt
pinning, as described in http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning.
Sven
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