since unstabled moved to a new glibc version a couple months ago, attempting to install virtually any package from unstable will most likely fail because the glibc does not match.
unless you upgrade your glibc to woody's release, maybe it can run potato software. if it were my system though i would avoid woody. but thats me. nate Yuri Niyazov wrote: > > Please reply to my email address also, I am not subscribed to the list yet. > I am currently running a hacked and hacked-over again old unstable version of > 2.2. > On a separate partition I am now installing 2.2 stable, and have a question: > I have an NVidia > graphics card that requires XFree86 4.0 to run comfortably. For my current > setup I installed > Xfree86 4.0 binary .tgz from their website, replaced the debian xfree86 > packages with dummy > equivalents - used the equivs package if memory serves me right, and had very > few problems. > However, now, to make my maintenance chore easier, I would like to use the > XFree86 4.0 packages > from unstable, but those are the only packages that I want to use, I do not > want to install any > other unstable packages. Re-configuring apt to get unstable doesn't seem to > be like a great idea > since I run apt-get dist-upgrade weekly to get the updates on stable > packages, if any. If I leave > it at unstable, it will convert my system to unstable. I do not know if it is > possible to download > the unstable package list, upgrade a few packages, and then revert to the > stable package list - > what will happen to the packages downloaded from unstable the next time I run > apt-get update and > then dist-upgrade. Also, I wouldn't mind downloading the XFree86 packages > manually, but keeping > track of all of their "requires" manually is error-prone, I don't think I > want to attempt that > again. > > Thanks a lot > Yuri Niyazov > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
