upgrade glibc on Sarge

2006-05-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
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,

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

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

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

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

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

upgrade glibc

1999-07-20 Thread Bill Shui
Hi, I have a Debian Hamm installed on my i386 machine, using glibc 2.0 and I really like to upgrade glibc to 2.1 but I followed the instruction from the GNU site, downloaded all the linux-threads, crypt, binutils, etc... and compiled binutils statically and then installed

Re: upgrade glibc

1999-07-20 Thread Peter Makholm
Bill Shui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and I really like to upgrade glibc to 2.1 but I followed the instruction from the GNU site, downloaded all the any suggestions? Yes: Next time use the debian packages from unstable when you want to upgrade anything. I don't know what