This kind of strikes at something I've been wondering of late. Slink, back when Hamm was the stable dist, was pretty stable I thought. I realize that Potato started out hideously broken, mostly because of the libc6 2.1.1, but that was a while back, and I'm now wondering if anyone has any comments on how "stable" the unstable distribution is in general.
Sean J Horacio MG wrote: > > ~> > I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I > ~> > expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect > ~> > any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward > ~> > as upgrading any other package? > ~> > ~> If you upgrade a slink installation to libc6 2.1.1, you will probably have > ~> some problems. I know I did, and I went back to libc6 2.07 > ~> > ~> I suppose you could upgrade to potato and avoid the problems. > ~> > ~> If you try it on a slink system, do not go back from the potato version of > ~> ld.so to the slink version or you will break the system; I just kept the > newer > ~> ld.so when I went back to the older libc6. > > That sounds as if upgrading to libc6 2.1.1 is not a good idea, at least > not if it's just for a couple of packages. But, does it mean libc6 > 2.1.1 is not stable, or it means it's stable but not fit to use with a > system packed with (and for) a previous version? > > If I finally decided to do an upgrade, which other packages/libraries > should I also upgrade for sanity sake? > > TIA > > Horacio > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- He who hesitates is last.
