On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Carl Fink <c...@finknetwork.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50:36AM +0100, Brian wrote: >>> On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 19:00:33 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: >>> >>>> Never mind, I just checked and Sid is also running 2.13. Apparently I'd >>>> have >>>> to use ANOTHER DISTRO to get a glibc less than 18 months old. >>> >>> Maybe first read the thread starting at >>> >>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/07/msg00466.html >> >> A thread in which someone says the only way to proceed is to file a bug >> against glibc, and another gives a way to reach the glibc team? >> >> Apparently even Sid won't be updated with anything newer until after Wheezy >> releases, and not soon after that. So what do people think of Arch Linux as >> my next years-worth of Linux?
> Not a fan of the Arch user culture at all. Also not a fan of their crazy > packaging system, to the extent that I have been exposed to it. >From my limited use of Arch, I have nothing bad to say about the "Arch user culture" and nothing but good things to say about its packages and its packaging system. Different strokes for different folks... > I can't speak for others, but if I really needed a newer glibc that > bad, I wold probably add Ubuntu to my sources.list, and make > a hybrid. For glibc, you might end up pulling in a lot of packages... If I were to install an Ubuntu package on Debian - *IF* - I wouldn't add any Ubuntu repository to sources.list. I'd download the deb file and install it with dpkg. It may be less work to install Arch (or Ubuntu 12.10, which has the latest glibc, 2.14) but, if you want to have the latest glibc on Debian, you could get the source from eglibc.org, rebuild the binary packages that come from it, and install them; assuming that nothing on your system'll choke on the new version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sw+lukaqfkvhngms420+ggh7yjgbkn6zaywntkqv8w...@mail.gmail.com
