Re: Debian issue w/exim4_i386.deb, depends on libc6 2.2.5-14.3

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:27:08PM -0600, Dave Plonka wrote:
> wants 2.2.5-14.3, which happens to be the current version from "testing"
> distribution.
 
Ah, yeah, darn.
If someone who knows debian can tell me how to force an older version of the
libc when I build the package, I'll be happy to do that.
I'm due to build a 4.12 package with the newer sa-exim soon.
 
> Is there an easy way for me to rebuild the package to just depend on
> the stable libc6 - or is this something you could fix, Marc?  It would
> make the package more useful to those of us trying to stay with the
> stable code.

Right.
If you go to:
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/exim4-debian.html
look at  "you can get the  debian subtree here  (just untar it in  your exim
source distribution dir, and type debian/rules binary)"

> "testing" since I've always just run the "stable" distribution.  If I
> change to "testing" in "source.list", dselect will want to upgrade all
> packages to the "testing" version, right?  Ugh.

I don't use dselect, I just use apt, but I'm pretty sure that as long as you
don't do an dist-upgrade, you can point to testing, and only upgrade the
pacakges you want (and their dependencies)
That's what I do (although it's not technically supported, but it's worked
fine for me the last 4 years I've been doing it)

Marc
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