On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 02:30:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > This is probably a difficult question to answer, but what things > would I break if I upgraded libc6 from slink to potato ?? > > I would like to run dia-4.0 and the only thing that is stopping > me is the libc6 version. Included is the output of dpkg. > > I could tell if I use dselect, but I dont know how to tell > dselect (apt) to just use one file from unstable, not the whole > lot. > > Any ideas ?? > John.
I would advise against upgrading to potato for a production machine. It's not unstable in the wintendo sense, but the packages list changes about every day, so what's true about it today may not be true in 5 mins. I don't think glibc2.1 will brake much if anything. When I tried running potato on my main machine, all it broke was ddd. I'm not sure if that was due to my incompotence or actually broken stuff, so it's either not a problem or most-likely fixed (4 months ago). I run potato on all my less-important machines without problems. That said, my reccomendation is either: a) build it yourself from the potato debianized sources (good to learn how to do, and really quite simple) or b) grab the copy I built at ftp://bolverk.penguinpowered.com/. Either way, you'll have a glibc2.0 version of dia. HTH and good luck -Dano
