On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: > Actually, I think Martin is correct. In order to prevent CDROM based > 1.3.1 users from corrupting their utmp, libc6 must conflict with older > libc5. Modulo my typo (Martin's <= is right, not my <<), I think my > other post suggests the best solution. Of course, upgrading will need > to involve upgrading libc5 before installing libc6 for the first > time. But this is acceptable to me. The conflict line tells me to > find a newer version. But libc5's conflict with libc6 IS totally > broken wrt upgrades (it is both untrue and uninformative).
WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY WE'RE CAUSING EVERYONE HEADACHES OVER THE MINOR ISSUE OF UTMP CORRUPTION!!!!!!!! I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY REASONS WHY UTMP CORRUPTION IS SO EVIL THAT WE NEED TO MAKE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO RUN A FEW LIBC6 PROGRAMS ON BO GO THROUGH HELL. (apologies for shouting here, but I'm getting annoyed at "utmp corruption" being given as the reason for libc5 and libc6 conflicts without a rational explination why anyone should care. If you don't upgrade anything that deals with utmp to libc6, you don't have any problems). -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
