On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:36:28PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >
> > Ahh, you must be on the `unstable' branch of Debian. Every now and then
> > it
> > becomes that (unstable). A new version of GNU LibC was installed and a
> > lot
> > of stuff is (or will shortly be) breaking.
> >
> > Put your libc on hold (echo libc hold | dpkg --set-selections) and
> > downgrade
> > back to something reasonable. Grab the one from security.debian.org as
> > all
> > the mirrors have removed the `older' version.
>
[bizarre email you have there ... anyway]
> Thanks for that. One slightly dumb q though :)
> As far as I can tell, security.debian.org only contains unstable/non-US.
> and libc is part of unstable/us stuff (hope my terminology is OK :)
> Is there somewhere else I should be looking? I'm perusing
> ftp://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/
ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-i386/
is where you will find them.
Or add:
deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main
to /etc/apt/source.list
Anand
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