Re: upgrading 2.1r2 to glibc2.1

1999-12-08 Thread Ron Forrester
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 07:38:06PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote: > If you really want Debian and glibc2.1, the best and easiest option > is to use unstable for now. a) Will potato (that's next, right?) be glibc2.1 based? b) Is unstable what is being prepared for potato? c) What is the preferred metho

upgrading 2.1r2 to glibc2.1

1999-12-08 Thread Ron Forrester
I have searched the archives for this, and have found (very surprisingly) nothing -- perhaps I searched wrong? I would like to upgrade my 2.1r2 system to glibc2.1, and dependent packages. I would like to do so such that I maintain the consistency of my package database. In otherwords, I want to

Re: dselect troubles

1999-08-30 Thread Ron Forrester
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 09:13:53PM -0500, Brad wrote: > > The only problem with this method is that it will forget any holds you've > placed. Brad, thanks very much for such a specific set of steps. Unforunately, I went through them, and they didn't seem to make a difference. After doing the ste

dselect troubles

1999-08-29 Thread Ron Forrester
I have somehow put dselect into a mode where it thinks there are many packages to be removed, and many to be installed -- it got like this despite the fact that I have not been through selecting packages for removal and installation. I believe it ended up like this as a result of my playing with