> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > Now there's a rather strong warning against downgrading ldso to version > > > 1.8.x, which is the option I'm looking at here, since I can't install > > > libc6 without gutting my system, making it near impossible to do what I > > > wanted to do in the first place, that is to compile a source package. > > > > Well, I more-or-less understand why you wanted to upgrade ld.so, and > > why the upgrade didn't do what you wanted to. But I still fail to > > see why you want to downgrade ld.so. Really the hamm ld.so doesn't > > conflict/depend on anything in bo/hamm, so you should be able to > > use the hamm ld.so safely on a bo system. Really, unless you have > > _very_ good reasons to downgrade your ld.so, *don't* do it! > > > > Perhaps I didn't summarize well the response I got wrt my first post in > this thread - with the ldso from hamm, I can't use the dpkg-shlibdeps from
Ah, right. I remember again (from past experience, that is). Yeah, that's a good reason to want to downgrade. > > > Why is this warning there? > > I think my mantra should be from now on "be patient". I foolishly tried a > downgrade without waiting for a response. Ouch. Cool! So you must be feeling *very* stupid now, right? I love it, I love it! Someone who blows up his computer *knowingly*. You seem to be very courageous! Actually, I could have used someone like you, to test out that "safe" downgrade method I posted. (Could I interest you to upgrade ld.so anyway, and then try my "safe" downgrade method?) > Fortunately, I had a rescue boot disk and could fix things, but... I am proud to say that when it hit me, I survived _without_ rebooting. I was fortunate enough to have some nfs mounted directories on my server, and I could go to another Debian machine, and build the static utilities there, and then copy them on the NFS volumes. I like courageous people! (Oh, come to think of it, why do courageous people have bootdisks?) -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. `head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter words (once every approx 4e8 tries). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
