Pending further investigation, we now allege that Andy Bastien wrote: > > I'd like to install netsaint on a potato box. Unfortunately, the most > recent version requires glibc 2.2. Is is reasonably possible to > upgrade potato to glibc 2.2? This is a production box, (mainly DNS, > but it does one or two other things as well), so I can't screw it up > ;-). Should I just try to live with an older version of netsaint? Do > I have any other options? >
Never mind. I had failed to remove the partially installed package from woody, so I was executing the wrong one. I've already banged my head against the wall a couple times. Still, I supose the question still stands, since this problem has happened before, as to whether you can or should upgrade a potato box to glibc 2.2.