On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:31:23AM -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > I'm using Sarge. > > I just did an "aptitude update," and now when I attempt to upgrade, > aptitude says that it wants to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev. > > I know that those are pretty critical to the functioning of the system, > so I've temporarily put them on hold, and I'm not upgrading yet.
Reasonable thought. > My question is "why are libc6 and libc6-dev being upgraded?" I didn't > see anything on the http://www.debian.org/security/ site suggesting that > libc6 needed to be upgraded, I just checked and you're correct, it's not there. > and I didn't change my sources.list. And as I see below it all points to sarge. > This is "stable." Things aren't upgraded unless it's a security concern > (or so I thought). Usually you're correct. It might also be that those upgrades are required for another security upgrade. I don't have a sarge box running here to check. > I'm scared to upgrade because I don't want a non-functional system, If it's made it's way into sarge it shouldn't break your system, but if you wait a day or two any problems should either pop up here or on bugs.debian.org > and > I don't want Etch or Sid. Very reasonable. > Here is my sources.list: > #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r1 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 > (20051218)]/ unstable contrib main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r1 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 > (20051218)]/ unstable contrib main > > > # deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free > deb ftp://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stable main contrib non-free So everything points to sarge. What version of libc6 does it want to install? You can check packages.debian.org to see if it's the version in stable or not. > PS. > It wants to upgrade perl too, and I've also put those packages on hold. Again if it's the stable version, it should be good to install. You can check on packages.debian.org -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I saw what you did and I know who you are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
