<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Dave Platt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dplatt@radagast.org">dplatt@radagast.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im"><br>> In the meantime, does anyone have a nice way to update a stable/stock lenny<br>> installation with the updated glibc as well as the latest kernel<br><br></div>Scary and risky, as others have noted!<br>
<br>There is an official "backports" release kit associated with Debian,<br>which contains newer versions of many packages which have been<br>back-ported to be mostly-drop-in-compatible with current Debian<br>"stable" distribution.<br>
<br>You can find information about it at<br><br> <a href="http://backports.debian.org/" target="_blank">http://backports.debian.org/</a><br><br>However, it does not appear to contain an updated release of<br>glibc - likely for the reasons that other folks have alluded<br>
to (the stability risks outweigh the benefits).<br><br>I suspect that unless you're willing to put a lot of blood,<br>sweat, tears, and toil into the effort of getting the newer<br>glibc into Lenny, you're either going to have to switch to<br>
the "testing" distribution (Squeeze) or wait until Squeeze<br>is officially released as the new "stable" distribution<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks Dave. Yup, had checked out the backports (have that in my sources.lst) so would've found that automatically through apt, and had also visiually inspected the backports respository. Also, the blood, sweat, tears and toil have already gone into it to get it all compiled and ready. The only one thing that was left was that aptitude thought the dependencies and packages were broken but even they are now resolved, so the system "looks" good. Who knows how stable it'll be if a 100 concurrent calls are thrown on to it. Once I can get comfortable in doing over-the-net clean installs and/or understand how over-the-net / online upgrades occur in Debian (see I'm a debian newbie) then I might test / architect my platform with Squeeze in the lab and then upgrade the production machines to it when Squeeze is RTM/"stable". </font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I know this is an {*} list but does anyone know if simply adding the Squeeze repository to my sources.lst and running an 'aptitude upgrade/safe-upgrade/full-upgrade" will just upgrade Lenny -> Squeeze without me having to rebuild the system from scratch?</font></div>
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