Re: upgrade glibc on Sarge

2006-05-07 Thread John L Fjellstad 
Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm trying to install amavisd-new 2.4 on Sarge, using the testing
> repositry.  It wants to upgrade a few packages, most notably perl and
> glibc.  How safe is this?  I know there's always risk, but is there a
> reasonable chance that this will not break anything (I'm only running
> apache, mysql, postfix and courier on the box.

I'm not so sure that safe (not sure the differences are between the
glibc in Sarge and Etch).  You might be better off using the backports,
www.backports.org, which are newer packages compiled for stable.

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Re: upgrade glibc on Sarge

2006-05-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl 
Hi!

* Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060507 20:25]:

> That's the first place I looked, but they only have 2.3.3 for stable,
> and i'm really looking for 2.4.  Guess I'll have to wait a little
> longer.

Than you might try to create your own backported package by fetching the
source package and compiling your own binary.


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  Alexander

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Re: upgrade glibc on Sarge

2006-05-07 Thread Joris Huizer 

Hans du Plooy wrote:

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 14:13 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:


It is *very* unsafe.  The amavisd-new package is in backports.  I would
just use that instead.

http://backports.org/instructions.html



Thanks, Roberto,

That's the first place I looked, but they only have 2.3.3 for stable,
and i'm really looking for 2.4.  Guess I'll have to wait a little
longer.

Thanks
Hans




You could try and compile the unstable or testing version of the source 
yourself, this often works - especially if letting configure figure it's 
way out; apt would probably complain that way, so part of it must be 
done "manually"; if needed, some dependencies can be solved the same way

(I know in the last woody days I tried things like that with success)

HTH,

Joris


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Re: upgrade glibc on Sarge

2006-05-07 Thread Hans du Plooy 
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 14:13 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> It is *very* unsafe.  The amavisd-new package is in backports.  I would
> just use that instead.
> 
> http://backports.org/instructions.html

Thanks, Roberto,

That's the first place I looked, but they only have 2.3.3 for stable,
and i'm really looking for 2.4.  Guess I'll have to wait a little
longer.

Thanks
Hans


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Re: upgrade glibc on Sarge

2006-05-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez 
Hans du Plooy wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm trying to install amavisd-new 2.4 on Sarge, using the testing
> repositry.  It wants to upgrade a few packages, most notably perl and
> glibc.  How safe is this?  I know there's always risk, but is there a
> reasonable chance that this will not break anything (I'm only running
> apache, mysql, postfix and courier on the box.
> 
> Thanks
> Hans
> 
> 

It is *very* unsafe.  The amavisd-new package is in backports.  I would
just use that instead.

http://backports.org/instructions.html

-Roberto

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