Re: Managing a hybrid slink/potato Debian installation
Sami Dalouche wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:19:02PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: Is there a way to say apt that the system should be slink except for some packages (eg. wmaker, x11amp, gnome, wine) that should come from potato, so that I can safely issue an apt-get upgrade without being asked to download 63.1Mb of packages? I don't know but it's a bad idea ! Wmaker, X11amp, gnome wine depends on glibc2.1. So, if you install one of these packages, you'll get the libc6_2.1 package. In other words, if you have the glibc2.1, you can upgrade to potato. It's as unstable as a slink with glibc2.1. Can any1 tell us more ? Although I have not actually tried this. I believe that it is possible to have apt use any debian source codes as the source and do all three processes of downoading, compiling, and installing to your system. If you do this properly it should allow you to install any debian applications sources to your system by recompiling to the slink dependencies. If there is anyone out there who has done this please speak out. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
Re: Managing a hybrid slink/potato Debian installation
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:19:02PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: Is there a way to say apt that the system should be slink except for some packages (eg. wmaker, x11amp, gnome, wine) that should come from potato, so that I can safely issue an apt-get upgrade without being asked to download 63.1Mb of packages? I don't know but it's a bad idea ! Wmaker, X11amp, gnome wine depends on glibc2.1. So, if you install one of these packages, you'll get the libc6_2.1 package. In other words, if you have the glibc2.1, you can upgrade to potato. It's as unstable as a slink with glibc2.1. Can any1 tell us more ? -- |. ICQ : 25529539 || |\ | | | \ / AIM : linhax |___ | | \| |__| / \ IRC nick : linhax Sami Dalouche : [EMAIL PROTECTED]DHIS : pingoo.dhis.org
Re: Managing a hybrid slink/potato Debian installation
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:43:39AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: I don't know but it's a bad idea ! Wmaker, X11amp, gnome wine depends on glibc2.1. So, if you install one of these packages, you'll get the libc6_2.1 package. In other words, if you have the glibc2.1, you can upgrade to potato. It's as unstable as a slink with glibc2.1. Partial upgrades work fine - you'll end up running glibc2.1, but virtually all glibc2.0 applications will work with it. There are a few exceptions, mostly in non-free apps. I ran a system like this for quite some time without any hassle. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpLH66LKBxZs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Managing a hybrid slink/potato Debian installation
Is there a way to say apt that the system should be slink except for some packages (eg. wmaker, x11amp, gnome, wine) that should come from potato, so that I can safely issue an apt-get upgrade without being asked to download 63.1Mb of packages? TYA, Enrico -- PGP key available on finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]
