Re: upgrading 2.1r2 to glibc2.1

1999-12-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: [ snip ] : >c) What is the preferred method of taking my 2.1r2 through an unstable : >upgrade? Specifically, how do I do it? : : edit /etc/apt/apt.sources and change all instances of `stable' with `unstable' : : then run apt-get update ; apt-get di

Re: upgrading 2.1r2 to glibc2.1

1999-12-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On 7/12/99 Ron Forrester wrote: a) Will potato (that's next, right?) be glibc2.1 based? potato IS glibc2.1 based. b) Is unstable what is being prepared for potato? potato IS unstable, potato is the codename for the next stable release of debian it will probably be called debian 2.2. c)

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