On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 05:44:43PM -0400, Scott Ellis wrote: > On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Britton wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for > > > so > > > long... > > > > Yes this is a shame. I guess the switch had to be made sometime, but I > > can't help feeling that it wouldn't have hurt to put it off a bit more. > > RedHat is also working on upgrading to libc6 (of course they have people > paid to recompile everything). The difference is, Debian has never hidden > its development stuff, so you notice it. I think that the libc6 upgrade > is going reasonably smoothly, if you want to do it, my mini-howto is a > reasonably bulletproof method of doing it.
I upgraded to unstable and it went *very smooth*. The mini-HOWTO is a *very* useful and important resource to get all things in place. But you should wait a day or two before upgrading a fresh uploaded package, in case there are some ugly flaws... :) Just a "Hey you are doing a nice thing there!" Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .