Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-10 Thread Brian
On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 21:23:16 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50:36AM +0100, Brian wrote: Maybe first read the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/07/msg00466.html A thread in which someone says the only way to proceed is to file a bug

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:27:00AM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 21:23:16 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50:36AM +0100, Brian wrote: Maybe first read the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/07/msg00466.html A

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:00:33 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 05:12:35PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Some non-packaged software, e.g. the BOINC client, requires a relatively recent version of glibc. There always be some package that requires some version for some library. This

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50:36AM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 19:00:33 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Never mind, I just checked and Sid is also running 2.13. Apparently I'd have to use ANOTHER DISTRO to get a

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 10 sep 12, 09:06:56, Kelly Clowers wrote: I can't speak for others, but if I really needed a newer glibc that bad, I wold probably add Ubuntu to my sources.list, and make a hybrid. For glibc, you might end up pulling in a lot of packages... Later, when Debian gets it you can roll

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-10 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50:36AM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 19:00:33 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Never mind, I just checked and Sid

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 05:12:35PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Some non-packaged software, e.g. the BOINC client, requires a relatively recent version of glibc. Wheezy, the latest non-unstable version of Debian, is stuck at 2.13, released 1.5 years ago, and since it is frozen there won't be a

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-09 Thread Brian
On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 19:00:33 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Never mind, I just checked and Sid is also running 2.13. Apparently I'd have to use ANOTHER DISTRO to get a glibc less than 18 months old. Really? Developers: really? I gauess the only way to get an answer to the above rhetorical

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-09 Thread Robert Wall
On 09/09/2012 02:12 PM, Carl Fink wrote: Some non-packaged software, e.g. the BOINC client, requires a relatively recent version of glibc. BOINC 7.0.27 migrated to wheezy about a month ago (and is thus listed on http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=boinc ). Before then, I was using the

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50:36AM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 19:00:33 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Never mind, I just checked and Sid is also running 2.13. Apparently I'd have to use ANOTHER DISTRO to get a glibc less than 18 months old. Really? Developers: really?