Thanks for the hint. How "unstable" is this "testing" version ? I mainly use my hppa-box as a database and web servers under mysql and apache.
Le Mer 25 Juin 2003 19:40, Grant Grundler a �crit : > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:04:21PM +0200, Laurent Decreusefond wrote: > > I have woody on my HPPA box and I would like to install refdb. Since I > > can't compile libdbi, i look at the available web packages and saw at > > > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/jigdo-area/hppa/snapshot/pool/mai > >n/libd/ > > > > the package libdbi0_0.6.7-5_hppa.deb. > > How do I upgrade my sources.list to be able to install it? > > just the one package or all of "testing" (aka sarge) release? > > Mixing released bits is a very risky thing to do. > I've documented how I was shown to do it for testing/unstable here: > > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2003-March/019324.html > > Because of glibc and other dynamic lib versioning issues, I wouldn't > reccomend the above for a stable/testing hybrid system. > > You can also just grab the *hppa.deb and install with "dpkg -i" > by hand - and satisfying any dependencies by hand too. > Not sure that's feasible or safe to do though. > > grant -- L. Decreusefond
