Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-24 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:05:23PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 05:40:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > So what you seem to say is: If you copy the libc6 or static libraries > > between distributions you deserve to fail. Thats fine if you say it > > straight o

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 05:40:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > So what you seem to say is: If you copy the libc6 or static libraries > between distributions you deserve to fail. Thats fine if you say it > straight out. That's what I was trying to do! > Does the same apply to libX11. Or c

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:29:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:50:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> But running Debian binaries on other distribut

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:29:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:50:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> But running Debian binaries on other distributions remains a > >> problem. For example static binar

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:50:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> But running Debian binaries on other distributions remains a >> problem. For example static binaries that use libnss* plugins will >> fail to find those plugins on other systems

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-22 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:50:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > But running Debian binaries on other distributions remains a > problem. For example static binaries that use libnss* plugins will > fail to find those plugins on other systems. Copying the debian libc6 > to your ~/lib/ dir on a

Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dear release team and DDs, I submitted a trivial patch for glibc in bug#387446 to increase the compatibility between debian amd64 and other distributions. The maintainer has reassign this to 'general' saying: Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually there is not