Hi, I just upgraded my R93 system to unstable-elf with help of the nice perlscript someone posted here, and mucho struggling with dependencies :-) I didn't like dselect (I apologise for this:), so upgrading by hand was a little slow, but without any big problems. Some packages needed to be removed before dpkg allowed me to install newer ones, and dpkg dumped core. (e.g. dpkg -i blah1.deb blah2.deb blah3.deb, error while installing blah2.deb-> segfault before blah3.deb)
Now everything works very well again, my xterms look a little stranger than before (scrollbars, huh- no arrows anymore. Thanks, xaw3d :), the buttons of some applications have now dotted-lines (xaw3d, too?) and the system is more sluggish. It's not a mem problem, it's 32mb (but only a 486/66) with 10mb free on average... Loading emacs freezes X11 completely for about 5 seconds, with a.out everything slowed down during emacs-startup, too, but not like now. That's the price we pay for new features.. Something positive: I compiled some of my /usr/local programs. Due to more shlibs some binaries shrinked from 150k to 80kb. One thin about the packages: I just discovered that taylor-uucp is still a.out :-( Ok, recompiling isn't a big job, but I'd like to know which other packages are still a.out. Is there a quick way to recognise them? Unpacking, file/ldd blah, deleting takes a long time. The 'depends: libc5' field isn't used everywhere, so that's not a reliable way to differentiate them... Olaf -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Finger me for ! ! <A HREF="http://home.pages.de/~dc1ik/";>click</A> ! PGP-public key! -------------------------------------------------------------------------
