Re: glibc and associated packages in incoming

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 12:59 -0500 1999-03-16, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:
> Also, package order is *super* important when installing these things.
> Best thing that I've found to do is install the new libc6.1 and
> libncurses4 debs together on one command line.  This avoids a problem with
> dpkg trying to work using a libncurses that's outdated.

I have discovered that only apt seems to be able to safely do this upgrade.

> Also, apt has been recompiled now.  Please bang on it and make sure things
> are ok with it.  It's a new version, so I'm not sure if it breaks anything
> or does anything different.

0.1.10.1 is nothing more than a recompile against glibc 2.1.
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