Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-17 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 16 October 2003 07:25, Travis Crump wrote: How much of an idiot do you think the former admin was? It seems insane that anyone would upgrade libc6 for no good reason. Hehe, or a complete newbie, who only two weeks after woody was released realized that he had written testing and

Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
-In response to your message- --received from Travis Crump-- How much of an idiot do you think the former admin was? It seems insane that anyone would upgrade libc6 for no good reason. I have a feeling that downgrading libc6 is going to break something in /usr/local/... I realized after

Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
Well, for the record, with not getting anyone else's opinion on this, I finally gave things a try and ran dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb and the only warning (other than the obvious fact that I was downgrading packages) was that such a downgrade would

Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 20:30, Paul Yeatman wrote: Well, for the record, with not getting anyone else's opinion on this, I finally gave things a try and ran dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb and the only warning (other than the obvious fact that I was

Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-15 Thread Travis Crump
insane that anyone would upgrade libc6 for no good reason. I have a feeling that downgrading libc6 is going to break something in /usr/local/... pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

downgrading libc6

2003-10-13 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I've inherited a Debian system that primarily uses the stable distribution and yet on which the previous manager must have upgraded libc6, libc6-dev and locales to, likely, the testing distribution as they are higher versions than available from stable. Now that it is in my hands, I'd prefer

Re: Downgrading libc6?

2003-03-18 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:27:42 +1100 Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or you could just wait a few days for it to filter into testing. I thought it already had. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Downgrading libc6?

2003-03-17 Thread Niclas Söderlund
Hiya, im running apt against the testing-source. With the latest upgrade of libc6 the dependencies broke for php4 which I need for my workstation. Ive seen why and so on and now I wonder if there is any way you can downgrade a package? I need to go down a level on libc6, and want all the

Re: Downgrading libc6?

2003-03-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:59:03AM -0600, Michael J. Denton wrote: I need to go down a level on libc6, and want all the dependencie-packages that libc6 brought with it to follow and downgrade to the next level aswell. Doable? Or is a re-install faster. I had the same problem - in my case

Re: Downgrading libc6?

2003-03-17 Thread Niclas Söderlund
Hiya, the SID-version? Regards, Niclas At 16:11 2003-03-17, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:59:03AM -0600, Michael J. Denton wrote: I need to go down a level on libc6, and want all the dependencie-packages that libc6 brought with it to follow and downgrade to the next level aswell.

Re: Downgrading libc6?

2003-03-17 Thread Rob Weir
Please don't CC me, I obviously read the list, since I answered your original question :-) On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 05:33:20PM +0100, Niclas S?derlund wrote: Hiya, the SID-version? Sid is Debian Unstable. Search on http://packages.debian.org/ for the 'libc6' package in 'unstable', then

Re: Downgrading libc6?

2003-03-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 02:11:20AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: Gah, that's horribly extreme. Just install the sid version of php4. A better question is why either of you let apt remove it to begin with Because neither one of them has a clue, of course, as to how apt actually works. Actually

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-21 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:12:06 +, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:21:28PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:58:18 -0800 (PST), nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if libc6 is the ONLY thing he installed it may be possible to force downgrade. one of my

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-19 Thread Pigeon
the former .deb). A conflict with libdb1-compat . I read in an old forum (August 2001) that downgrading libc6 is not supported. Is that true? if libc6 is the ONLY thing he installed it may be possible to force downgrade. one of my friends installed the unstable of libc6 version on a potato system about

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
encountered some problems trying to downgrade (installing the former .deb). A conflict with libdb1-compat . I read in an old forum (August 2001) that downgrading libc6 is not supported. Is that true? if libc6 is the ONLY thing he installed it may be possible to force downgrade. one of my

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:21:28PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:58:18 -0800 (PST), nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if libc6 is the ONLY thing he installed it may be possible to force downgrade. one of my friends installed the unstable of libc6 version on a potato system about 8

downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
) that downgrading libc6 is not supported. Is that true? Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread nate
(August 2001) that downgrading libc6 is not supported. Is that true? if libc6 is the ONLY thing he installed it may be possible to force downgrade. one of my friends installed the unstable of libc6 version on a potato system about 8 months ago because he thought he could do this to run the new mailman

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread Tom Cook
with libdb1-compat . I read in an old forum (August 2001) that downgrading libc6 is not supported. Is that true? if libc6 is the ONLY thing he installed it may be possible to force downgrade. one of my friends installed the unstable of libc6 version on a potato system about 8 months ago because he

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:45:56PM +0100, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: A question for a friend of mine: is it possible to downgrade libc6. he upgraded libc6 on his stable machine using the unstable's version. He encountered some problems trying to downgrade (installing the former .deb). A

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:38:51AM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: On 0, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would backup any data you really want if possible before attempting this, technically I don't think its supported, but it is possible at least in my experience. I've successfully downgraded a

problemas downgrading libc6

2002-09-21 Thread Ruben Porras
apt-get install libc6/testing Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selected version 2.2.5-6 (Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:testing) for libc6 The following packages will be REMOVED: [omito la retaila de paquetes...] The following held packages will be changed: