On Wednesday 12 November 2003 02:57, Mike Williams wrote: > I am wanting to take an ~x86 box back to x86 (without waiting weeks, or > months). > 99.99% of things I'm not worried about downgrading. But then there is glibc > (and possible binutils and gcc). > At the moment glibc is 2.3.2-r8 with stable at 2.3.2-r1, a minor revision > that I don't expect to cause any great trouble. Binutils 2.14.90.0.7-r3 -> > 2.14.90.0.6-r6. GCC 3.3.2-r2 -> 3.2.3-r2. > > Normally I'm a gung-ho kind of guy, but I can't be doing with > install/fixing this box *again* (selinux is too much like hard work). > Should I be worried about downgrading?
I tried going from ~x86 to x86 a couple of weeks back. I gave up and put everything back up to ~x86 again! I'm sure I could have got it working but I didn't have the time. Along the lines of Spider's suggestion, have everything you can possible think of for the downgrade. i.e. backups of everything installed now (quickpkg?), all the distfiles for what you want to downgrade to and what you have installed now and _lots_ of patience for the debugging when things do go wrong. If this system is going to be semi-production, I hope a couple of days downtime is acceptable before the change! Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
