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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Ricardo Muggli wrote:
> Two days or so ago the Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO was posted here.
> I was wondering if it is okay to
> 1. use dselect and connect to a local ftp mirror
> 2. When prompted for Enter space seperated list of distributions to get
> during setting up the FTP Access Method, enter hamm/hamm
> 3. update the package list
> 4. unselect everything that is selected by default
> 5. select the packages that are listed in the Mini-HOWTO
> 6. and install
>
> My main concern is that each of these packages have many depencies. Should
> I accept the default dependencies or should I override them so I ONLY
> install the packages listed in the Mini-HOWTO?
The packages listed to be installed are complete to themselves, they need
to be installed manually. If you use dselect-ftp to upgrade them, you
stand a high risk of breaking bash and making your system unbootable. The
list I posted, when installed one-at-a-time in the exact order listed,
doesn't mess up your system. I wrote the list after several people
encountered problems upgrading. The base problem is with new libreadline
packages screwing up if installed in the wrong order. I've run the
install as listed on a clean v1.3.1 system and it worked flawlessly.
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