libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-07 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello everybody, I'd like to ask for some help. I have some machines running an old kernel (2.4.25, from Suse7.3). Now I'd like to get some newer software running on them, *without* re-installing the whole system. (That would be gnuplot, graphviz, subversion, fsvs, and some others). About a ye

Problem bootstrapping a sarge installation

2007-07-05 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello everybody, I'd like to use some newer packages on an old installation (Suse 7.3, with 2.4.25 running). As there are no new packages available, I'd have to compile them myself; but that would mean upgrading a lot of system libraries, too (like libxml and others), which could make problems