Hi Greg Wooledge; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > 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. > > Yup. > > > Being `binary compatible', does this mean that all the apps that I don't > > update will still work (with maybe some `rare exceptions')? > > Yes. I have a mostly-slink-but-partly-potato box and it's just fine. > > > Or do I need > > to do a dist-upgrade, and upgrade all of my apps to make sure they will > > still work? > > I'd recommend against this, due to a few broken packages that are in the > current potato. > > -- > Greg Wooledge | Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. > http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |
And is it possible to upgrade only some packages from _potato_ to a slink system? I'm asking this because when I install (by ignoring libc6 =>2.1 dependancy) imagemagick or xfig from potato on a slink system (along with whatever they depend on- the dpkg is installing them cleanly), all I get is segfaults galore. That indicates that whatever is compiled against glibc2.1 will _not_ work on glibc2.0 based system. Or what am I doing wrong? I have also heard that slink bash will fail with glibc2.1 (segfault); so how do I update libc6 to potato (using dpkg line, _not_ apt) without breaking the system? damir
