On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:12:06 +0000, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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: >> >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. > >(a) You could build the newer version from source. That's what I generally do :-) >(b) In practice the unstable libc6 won't usually actually break all that >much, at least not in such a way that getting newer versions of other >packages will help. (I speak as the guy who's getting all the bug >reports about apropos segfaulting lately under glibc 2.3.1.) There's a >reason why libdb1-compat exists: that reason is to *avoid* breakage when >upgrading just the libc6 from woody to unstable. OK; there's more of a difference between slink & woody, which is my situation, so there's a problem if I want something that wasn't in slink. A search for a local source of woody ISOs is in progress. >> 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 is OK when the library's soname differs, but changing the libc's >soname is a major exercise for a binary distribution like Debian. glibc >upstream have resolved never to change the libc's soname again. Ahhh... I sense a hack coming on... if I can be bothered to set up another box that I don't mind breaking when my hacked ld crashes. A set of woody isos would probably sort me out more safely. :-) Cheers Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
