~> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: ~> ~> : On 10-May-99 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. ~> ~> Do not upgrade only libc6. It will break your system if you do. If ~> you want to upgrade to libc6, upgrade all the way to potato.
So, what's the list of what should be upgraded? I would imagine that the first thing to do is to compile and run a 2.2.x kernel, the entire potato base directory... what else? I've also seen on this thread someone saying about the need to upgrade the X system... to xfree 3.3.3? Horacio.
