Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

[Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>]

>> Is there any way to use libc6-i586?
>
> I don't think that there currently is such a beast.
But after all, where does that libc6-i686 package come from?

I installed Debian-3.1 on that machine, and when asking apt to install
something, it should look into Sarge's online repositories - and as
far as I know Sarge was < i586 (i386 as far as I know).
So why after all does installing autossh lead to the installation of
another libc6 package, and furthermore where does the i686 version
come from? - As far as I know even Lenny is still compiled for i586 or
even earlier.

I just know from other distributions that there are several versions
of libc to be able to use e.g. SSE2 for memcpy on CPUs which can do
that, but all I know have fallback-versions for older CPUs. Even
Fedora11 will still be completly i586 compatible.

Thanks, Clemens