Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > op 21-09-14 13:40, Sven Hartge schreef:
>> You cannot install it in a way t run it side by side. By installing >> the libc6 package from Jessie it will overwrite the one from Wheezy. >> This is how the package manager works. > Correct, but... >> This late in the release cycle, upgrading the libc6 package will pull >> many more packages from Jessie into your Wheezy installation, >> transforming it into a mix of Wheezy and Jessie with a greater >> possibility of having strange bugs. > It's possible to install them on a place where it is not found as > library (e.g. in a chroot, or by unpacking in /opt/ ), and then use > LD_LIBRARY_PATH while starting the program what needs the newer glibc. Of course. But this is way beyond the abilities and scope of a normal user, who will damage their system if they blindly follow an HOWTO which just describes adding testing/jessie to their sources.list, maybe pinning it down and then installing the new libc6 from testing/jessie without warning about possible problems this may cause and how to revert to a known-good state if anything went wrong. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2b0ptih7b...@mids.svenhartge.de
