On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Forgive me for reintroducing a topic which has probably been done to > death on the list in recent months, but I had to unsubscribe for most > of the summer-months and haven't seem recent postings. > > I'm currently running Debian 1.3. I have the 2.0 binary CD and also > the CD_autoup.sh script written by Craig Sanders. I'm hesitating about > the upgrade though and I was wondering if someone could take the time > to answer two questions: > > 1. What improvement in performance (or kinds of improvement) should > I expect to notice?
Many more packages. > > 2. I have in /usr/local a number of non-debian programs that I use a > lot and that I'm very attached to (xv, rv_player). What are the > chances that they would be broken because of the library upgrade? Since the upgrade keeps libc5 on your system, there should be no problems. I don't recall if the upgrade removes libc4 (a.out), but if you have any binaries requiring libc4, you should probably replace them anyway. I've done upgrades using both autoup.sh and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' with only minor problems. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
