On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0800, Ted Deppner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:40:29PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: > > I followed woody when it was testing, and even without a libc6 major > version it was at times hairy. Managalbe and fun, but hairy. I enjoyed > solving the problems raised, but it takes precious time. > > > I agree caution is a good thing... but people who don't want to hurt > > every now and then should not be updating a testing system right now. > > The issue to me is that RedHat gets absolutely lambasted for their use of > beta/alpha libc6's and here with debian testing we have the exact same > situation... except not only is this libc6 bug prone it is also > incompatable with the previous version, meaning your entire installed > binary set could well have bugs and problems due to that version > inconsistency during testing process.
Well, RedHat released gcc- '2.96', a Redhat specific version guaranteed to be incompatible with any other vendors libc6. Debian's 2.95 libc and 3.2 libc *are* binary compatible with other vendors. That's very important to people like myself that run binary-only stuff like opera-static. > > It's a mess I don't want to deal with even on my home test system. Once > they reach a critical mass of packages this will be a managable problem, > but I think that's a ways off. I'm still a Debian noob, but i'll check in anyway. My 'testing' box has been up since the day i installed it two months ago, with very few issues requiring much thought to resolve. I read about the new libc6 for testing and waited a few days to see what problems might come up, then i upgraded. No problems since, although it was necessary to rebuild MySQL and PHP (two packages that i prefer to build from source anyway.) This system does not do any desktop duties, so i wouldn't be aware of any X weirdness. Both my desktop and laptop are running Sid. That hasn't been so smooth, but then I wouldn't be up to speed on Debian if I didn't have occasional things to fix. So despite the fact that i'm new to Debian and apparently picked a rough time to transition, I've found all upgrade paths to be pretty painless. My desktop has gone from stable->testing->unstable with the worst inconvenience being the occasional unavailability of certain packages. Pretty cool! -troy P.S. I think anyone running testing/unstable needs to subscribe to debian-devel-announce. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
