On Jo, 19 dec 13, 18:39:07, John Hasler wrote:
>
> There is no need for him to "track" Jessie once he has upgraded enough
> to run his program. Just read the security list and upgrade individual
> packages as needed.
This smells like dependency hell.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Jo, 19 dec 13, 10:23:35, John Hasler wrote:
> Read and follow the release notes and you'll be ok.
For Jessie? They don't exist yet.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On 12/20/2013 10:56 AM, John Hasler wrote:
> Verde Denim writes:
>> Is it possible for me to upgrade glibc/libffi to the Jessie release
>> and leave everything else in Wheezy?
> Upgrading glibc and libffi will force the upgrade of packages that depend
> on specific versions of those libraries. Use
On Friday 20 December 2013 15:24:41 Verde Denim wrote:
> Is
> it possible for me to upgrade glibc/libffi to the Jessie release
> and leave everything else in Wheezy?
Have you looked at wheezy-backports?
http://backports.debian.org/
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=glibc
I see that you
Verde Denim writes:
> Is it possible for me to upgrade glibc/libffi to the Jessie release
> and leave everything else in Wheezy?
Upgrading glibc and libffi will force the upgrade of packages that depend
on specific versions of those libraries. Use 'apt-get -s' to see what
would happen.
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On 12/19/2013 07:39 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
>> Jessie is at least a year from release. There are still major changes
>> planned for it. I expect Jessie to go through some cyclic stability,
>> instability, stability, instability before it releases at least a year
>> from now.
>
Bob Proulx writes:
> Jessie is at least a year from release. There are still major changes
> planned for it. I expect Jessie to go through some cyclic stability,
> instability, stability, instability before it releases at least a year
> from now.
There is no need for him to "track" Jessie once h
Verde Denim wrote:
> Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Why take any chances? Install/run Jessie and the application in a
> > virtual machine.
>
> Thanks for the reply. I thought of that, but the package I'm after is an
> integral part of my test platform for assessing mobile code. I really do
> need to ha
Verde Denim writes:
> ...is there more control I can exercise over the updating of the
> distro other than 'apt-get dist-upgrade' ?
First do 'apt-get upgrade'. This will do everything that can be done
without any removals or installation of new packages. It may suffice to
get you to the point wh
On 12/19/2013 11:23 AM, John Hasler wrote:
> Read and follow the release notes and you'll be ok.
John
Thanks for the reply. If you're suggesting the release notes for Jessie,
I agree that they should be reviewed. Aside from reviewing these notes,
is there more control I can exercise over the updati
On 12/19/2013 11:07 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 12/19/2013 9:54 AM, Verde Denim wrote:
>> Just checking in to get a consensus -
>>
>> I'm running a (very stable) Debian workstation with Wheezy that has a
>> lot of development/testing applications installed. I tried an install of
>> hopper disasse
Read and follow the release notes and you'll be ok.
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On 12/19/2013 9:54 AM, Verde Denim wrote:
> Just checking in to get a consensus -
>
> I'm running a (very stable) Debian workstation with Wheezy that has a
> lot of development/testing applications installed. I tried an install of
> hopper disassembler that threw errors concerning GLIBC and libffi
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