On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:07:32PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote:
> ~> 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?
>
Yes, running 2.2.x kernel is very helpful. I know that things like
Eterm, and ssh use the new pts/# terminals rather then ttyp#. The
best way to upgrade from slink to potato, is to edit your
/etc/apt/sources.list file, which contains where you get packages via
ftp or http. And change stable (or slink) to potato. Then do a
apt-get update, apt-get upgrade-dist. This might be a problem
however, since libc6-2.1 conflicts with the timezone package. This is
because libc6 now provides timezones. It can be a very complicated mess.
> I've also seen on this thread someone saying about the need to upgrade
> the X system... to xfree 3.3.3?
If your running the current xfree86 version in slink, the upgrade to
3.3.3.1 will be just fine. Amazingly they did a fairly good job on
it. It will run fine, I did rerun XF86Setup. My card is better
supported in 3.3.3.1, and I got my some problems fix doing so.
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