-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I talked with some Debian folks at Linux World, they indicated > that Potato was fairly stable and that I could safely upgrade a Slink > installation to Potato without problems. However, when looking at the > mailing list archives, it seems that it isn't so. For one, perl and > everything it depends on is broken. Ooops! It was at one point. That has been fixed now. For the most part, you can update a slink system to potato with no trouble. However, there's always the possibility that something will break, like the Lilo problem of a few days ago (which, BTW, has been temporarily downgraded to a working version)... > There was also some talk about bringing the latest applications from > Unstable to Stable so that Stable remains up to date, which is kind of > what they do with the Linux kernel. Without some mechanism to do > this, Debian is badly outdated. Slink still ships with Enlightenment > 0.14, Gnome 0.30 and LyX 0.12--my favorite tools are hopelessly > unusable. Depending on the particular package, recompiling for slink can be as simple as "apt-get --compile source packagename" (with a new enough version of apt, of course). The versioned Perl dependancies and such can be fixed by editing debian/control in the downloaded source. Of course, there _could_ be libraries that need upgrading to, or a program may really need glibc 2.1 and can't work with 2.0 in slink. That's why i said "can be" above ;) > I need a 2.2 kernel before I can use Debian on my main box. But, I am > experimenting with Slink on a small Pentium box. I must say that > everything works wonderfully. I can apt-get through my big box's > ip-chains. Everything is cool except for the legacy major > components, like the windows managers. There's a howto somewhere on the Debian site saying which packages have to be updated to use a 2.2 kernel with Slink. Also, in the kernel sources from your.fav.mirror.kernel.org there's a listing of various software and which version it should be. > I want to upgrade the packages to the latest. I know that many Debian > users do this because nobody could remain happy with standard Slink > for long. I could, given the proper circumstances. For example, the webserver where i work still runs Apache 0.8.something since "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" > Is there a standard place for updated packages? If there isn't, there > should be. At least I want the latest released Gnome, Enlightenment, > LyX and GIMP--all the major packages which take so much effort to > compile and install from tarballs. Somebody has done this. It's not standard, but check out ftp.netgod.net/x. Many slinkified apps there. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN/UfsL7M/9WKZLW5AQFPEQP/U2Sv0a1hQ67WJQb2vDLsTWRhp4y/lOHe 2ZrSu2AKAIhYrae69OYKycaTo3SbRPkOBr0nGyXHdVD+PFuRKsg2oYdUHeLLw0+H anoWFLEU28YKwop+4IIMZEa8xS4S5+f22SwIjRjwJ9lh1XLbTeSZal90yWqrs9Am gDZwL+7EQ18= =skGJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
