On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:21:18PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to state: > > > > That was supposed to be the point of my message -- In my experience, > > upgrading from glibc 2.0 to 2.1 is *trivial*, and needs no special > > consideration, migration guides, hand-holding sessions, or support > > groups. > > I've got to agree with Miles here. Once I stopped shaking in fear of a > possible instability, I started doing it one step at a time and I haven't > had any serious problems. The few problems I did have generally had solutions > in the mailing list archives and were easily dealt with. > > The important thing is: take small steps and test them out before going on.
Okay, This is one thing that I have been a little unsure about. Is an incremental update an okay, or practical, thing to do? If I want to check out something that is only in Potato, I go and use apt-get to grab and install it. If it uses glibc2.1, it'll get that, and any other libs that it depends on. Being `binary compatible', does this mean that all the apps that I don't update will still work (with maybe some `rare exceptions')? Or do I need to do a dist-upgrade, and upgrade all of my apps to make sure they will still work? Over a modem line, it'd prolly take me quite a few nights to do a full dist-upgrade, and I'm not sure I want to do that at the moment. When Potato comes out, I can download the ISOs at work and burn them onto a CD, so I don't have to spend a week downloading. If it is the case that you can do an incremental upgrade, then I was obviously wrong that Slink and Potato were incompatible, and I'll happily retract that statment. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling
