Re: Is it safe to upgrade slink to libc-2.1 from potato
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Julian Stoev wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> > I installed kernel 2.2.10 and I would like to be able to grab some sources
> > from potato and compile them. But some package sources depend on kernel
> > headers for 2.2.x and don't compile with kernel headers 2.0.x available
> > from libc-dev-2.0 in slink. Such a package is netbase for example. I can
> > easilly break with Debian tradition and install symlinks from
> > /usr/src/linux to /usr/include, but I don't want to do this, so I think
> > the best way is to install libc-dev-2.1, which is dependent on libc-2.1.
> > What do you think?
>
> Do you want run 2.2.10 in slink? Or you want other packages from potato,
> that aren't related to kernel?
> If you want just 2.2.10, go to Debian page and look for Installation
> instructions. There are instruction on how to run 2.2.10 on Slink as well
> as, links to netbase for 2.2.10 (slink), etc. See Errata Section.
>
> PS.: I'm running 2.2.10 on 4 Slink systems without problems.
>
No. I want to be able to compile and install other packages from potato.
This is now quite easy with the source option in the new apt-get.
--Julian Stoev
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