David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Colin Cashman wrote: >> I have a vague recollection of problems running apps using libc-2.1 with >> libc-2.2, so I thought I'd ask the list since I'm sure at least one person >> has tried it. :)
You might be thinking of the problems caused when various undocumented symbols in glibc 2.0 disappeared in glibc 2.1 - notoriously, that broke StarOffice. glibc 2.1 tightened things up generally so that that sort of thing became less likely to happen again. >> Should I expect any trouble if I simply upgrade to libc-2.2? If so, what is >> the best strategy to resolve those problems? > >Don't use me as a reliable source, but I think that this would be bad >unless you were to upgrade everything to woody which uses libc6-2.2.2-1. > >I seem to recall that when unstable first went from libc6-2.1 to >libc6-2.2 lots of things broke... I think that was mostly due to other things going on at the same time: X went to version 4 shortly afterwards. The libc6 upgrade broke impressively little for such a major effort. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
