>> Though I have not tried this yet (the machine with the
>> development environment has not yet been upgraded) but I
>> presume that by "... first purge all the '-dev' packages
>> ..." he is referring to using dselect or dpkg ...
Yes, exactly. Dselect handles this directly (though I'm the
wrench
Mark, I agree with you. Indeed, in retrospect, I can see that it was a rather
bad idea for me to even mention using
"--force" in a message with that subject!
Scott's mini-HOWTO is quite good and there is only ONE statement that is not
completely clear to me.
"If you wish to do libc6 developmen
> I have used --force-depends now quite a few times without being
Not to pick on you in particular, but I can't emphasize this enough:
if you use --force-depends while doing an upgrade from libc5 to libc6,
you *will* hurt yourself. Practically guaranteed. Really, honest! :-)
There are *other*
Remco wrote:
...
> One really important thing: do not force dpkg to install or remove
> anything. The dependancies and conflicts are there for a reason. There
> have already been many that screwed up by forcing dpkg to do not-so-smart
> things. I am one of them, but I upgraded before the HOWTO was
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Matthew Majka wrote:
> Can someone give me a pionter to some info on upgrading a
> system to libc6? I'd like to start using XFree86-3.3.1 for
> some of it's bug fixes and the new debian packages are libc6
> dependent.
Read the Libc5 to Libc6 mini-HOWTO that is posted to this
Can someone give me a pionter to some info on upgrading a
system to libc6? I'd like to start using XFree86-3.3.1 for
some of it's bug fixes and the new debian packages are libc6
dependent.
Matt
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