On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:21:28PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:58:18 -0800 (PST), "nate" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Frisurf said: > >> A question for a friend of mine: is it possible to downgrade libc6. he > >> upgraded libc6 on his stable machine using the unstable's version. He > >> encountered some problems trying to downgrade (installing the former > >> .deb). A conflict with libdb1-compat . > >> > >> I read in an old forum (August 2001) that downgrading libc6 is not > >> supported. Is that true? > > > >if libc6 is the ONLY thing he installed it may be possible to force > >downgrade. one of my friends installed the unstable of libc6 version > >on a potato system about 8 months ago because he thought he could do > >this to run the new mailman. of course many things broke. > > Yeah. This is a PITA. Want a new package? Sure, but you need a new C > library. But what about all my other packages? They'll all break, > you'll have to get new versions. I don't want new versions, the > current versions work just fine and I've got better things to do than > download and reinstall half the system. Well, tough shit. > > C'mon. This is Linux, not Windoze. There must be some way to install > BOTH libraries and tell the dynamic linker which one goes with which > package. This isn't the OS which tells you "no, you can't do that and > we're not going to tell you what's wrong or what to do about it". This > is the "you can do anything short of solving the halting problem by > editing some file with a text editor" OS. > > Isn't it?
Probably the easiest way would be a chroot environment for each libc library, or if it's only a few packages/binaries you might be able to use a ld-preload trick or something... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]