There is a newer version of glibc in "unstable" now! With locales!
I try it now. The experimental version works great (you can use the locales version from experimental even if it is newer). ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Tracy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:27 PM > To: Steve Langasek > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Debian Etch .... > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:59:17PM -0700, Mike Campbell wrote: > > > Um, I have 2.5-0exp3 from experimental installed: > > When I went to the experimental pool (via the packages.debian.org > website) looking for a working libc6.1, I found glibc-2.3.999.2-11 > (glibc-2.4 for all intents and purposes). No locales though, so I > get to build from source anyway :-(. At least the libc6.1 and > libc6.1-dev packages installed cleanly and don't have the defunct > process issue. Generating the appropriate locales package shouldn't > be too much trouble, just an irritant. > > N.B.: installing the matching "locales-all" package didn't fix the > issue -- man, perl, etc. are still complaining about being unable to > set the locale. There's probably an easy way to fix the immediate > problem, but building and installing the missing locales package will > allow for a more painless upgrade later when the working stable packages > show up. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bob Tracy WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
