On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:43:47PM -0600, Jeremy Choy wrote: [ please don't top post ]
>> The original poster indicated that they were running potato. They should >> put the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list: >> >> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security oldstable/updates main >> contrib non-free >> >> Note that security updates for potato are scheduled to end (June?). >> Turns out that we are running a developers version of Oracle (8.1.7) in >> which are dependant on potato's library's and if we were to run apt-get it >> would break Oracle and perhaps a few other apps running. > > again fairly new and trying to get my head around how exacally unix works. > if potato is no longer being supported, does that mean if there is a > vulnerability in, let's say an old library, will they update that in woody, > but not potato? Yes, that is what unsupported means. You would have to backport any packages to potato. Note that potato is still currently supported; that support is going to end at some point in the late spring/early summer. Is Oracle dependent on the older libc or some other library? Can you use LD_PRELOAD to solve your problem? -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A young man wrote to Mozart and said: Q: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing symphonies. Can you give me any suggestions as to how to get started?" A: "A symphony is a very complex musical form, perhaps you should begin with some simple lieder and work your way up to a symphony." Q: "But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old." A: "But I never asked anybody how." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
