Ian Marlier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I upgraded my system to the newest libc6 in order to get iptables to >work, and discovered 2 things: >1) iptables still doesn't work >and >2) sendmail is broken now, because of the berkeley DB 2 problem. > >But I can't just use apt or dpkg or something to go back to the >stable version of libc6, because everything and its mother depends on >ip.
Did you also upgrade sendmail to unstable? Partial upgrades may work - should work - but aren't necessarily perfectly supported. >When I tried, the list of things that would have to be removed >included all of my shells, everything in /usr/local, basically >everything except the kernel itself. The version of apt in unstable supports mass downgrading. See the apt_preferences(5) man page. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]