Re: GLIBC 2.4 for Debian Etch
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> 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.
>
I've got some answers in IRC from dondelelcaro some time ago. Briefly,
one of the reason for Etch to ship glibc 2.3.6 instead of newer ones
is it's the last glibc that supports 2.4 Linux kernel, which Etch
supports. Lenny won't make that promise, so it got updated.
>> 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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