Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2006-01-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-31 20:01:37, schrieb Matt England: > I'm still looking for any guidance on this topic. > > In summary: > > Can one run Sarge-built binaries on Woody? > Can one run Woody-built binaries on Sarge? In both cases you will run into trouble because the "libc6" > In the same context, how we

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2006-01-01 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:01:37PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > I'm still looking for any guidance on this topic. > > In summary: > > Can one run Sarge-built binaries on Woody? As I tried to explain at length in my previous post: in general no, except with massive tweaking (either at build-time,

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2006-01-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:01:37PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > I'm still looking for any guidance on this topic. > > In summary: > > Can one run Sarge-built binaries on Woody? In general, no. It will depend on the binary: it will depend on how it was linked. It may depend on how it was compiled

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Matt England wrote: > Can one run Sarge-built binaries on Woody? you "might" be able to .. but it is NOT desired > Can one run Woody-built binaries on Sarge? you "might" be able to .. but it is NOT desired -- you can usually run old binaries on newer systems

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-31 Thread Matt England
blish some Debian binary-to-test-system rev-control policies before I got into first round test on my group's software. -Matt At 12/29/2005 01:45 PM, Matt England wrote: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems: Is this feasible? I'm not talking about package management...just t

Re: Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Openoffice.org version 2 is wanted by Sarge users whereas it's only currently > in testing (to be Etch when released) and unstable. AFAIK it's not in etch currently, only unstable. Correct me if I'm wrong. - -- Chris Howie

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:45:55PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems: > > Is this feasible? > > I'm not talking about package management...just the raw, binary. > Backward compatibility is not guaranteed. That's why, for exa

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:45:55PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems: > > Is this feasible? > > I'm not talking about package management...just the raw, binary. > > Are dynamic-library-management tricks needed? Does the Debia

Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-29 Thread Matt England
Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems: Is this feasible? I'm not talking about package management...just the raw, binary. Are dynamic-library-management tricks needed? Does the Debian testing authority (or whoever is given responsibility of anointing Debian releases for distrib