On 03 Nov 2003 15:05:56 -0500, Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What started the chain of events was that a fairly routine minor bug bit the >latest libc6 release. He's an experienced sysadmin though and wasn't the least >bit fazed by that. What drove him batty was that it was so hard to recover >from the mess and all the obvious avenues just made the problem worse. > >All he had to do was install an older version of libc6 and every other package >would have been happy. All the infrastructure is there to do this, the old >packages are all on the ftp/http sites, the package may even be sitting in >apt's cache. But there's no interface for it.
An older libc6 than the one in stable? Where did you find that? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29