On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:27:48PM +1100, Jamie Honan wrote:
>
> Sometimes I see the development version of a package that I really
> want to take a good look at.
>
> Generally this will be source (no probs), but will often
> rely on very new features in libraries or other packages.
> These features are sometimes only in development versions
> of these libraries.
There's usually two posibilities here. It may just depend on the
newer versions of those libraries simply because it was compiled against
them. So try grabbing the sourece package and compileing it on your own
system. ie
apt-get source -b package.
If the new libraries actually do have features that the old ones don't
then you would have to install those libraries as well.
>
> Have you run into this sort of thing much?
> Do you generaly do an apt-get of bleeding edge stuff ?
For the last 6 months I've just always used unstable on my home
boxes. Since it means you get to keep up with any changes and play with
new stuff. I'm yet to have any major problems with it. Only problems so
far
cucipop didn't get restarted on libc6 upgrade so it wasn't working till
I manually restarted it the next morning.
licq segfaults for some reason.
Both things that I can live with and if they really worried me I could
always downgrade the packages.
>
> Currently I weigh up the probable benifits, depending
> how critical it is to the rest of the system.
>
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John
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