Re: cvs glibc install fails

[Chiaki Ishikawa]

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>> I am now writing this from a somewhat old linux in different
>> partition. (Yes, I was at least lucky enough to have enough disk space
>> to hold a bootable linux image and filesystems in a separate partition.)
>
>and this partition can't mount the broken one, and/or you don't have
>working fileutils on this one either?

>From this second partition, I can mount the broken one, and
also I have dpkg (or more precisely, apt-get) and can download
the proper binaries.

>also if your distribution has a self-contained package handler (rpm/dpkg),
>you can get the source for that and recompile it statically, and as long
>as it'll handle urls to packages, you can probably recover from any
>situation as long as your system is/remains stable.

I am hoping so. I obtained a debian CDROM just in case my network
setup is hosed. So maybe I would be able to recover the
trashed partition on the weekend.

The only problem was that I was trying to move over to the testing
versions of the various libraries (they fix some obnoxious problems
that I experienced while I used netscape, and I would very much
want to use them.), but there seems to be a point where I have to
jump from the older glibc to newer glibc and that is where I tripped
last time. 

Debian GNU/Linux handled it very well. 
It was all my mistake.
I overrode the warning from apt-get using "--force-*" flag and shot myself in
the foot. The apt-get understood that my incorporation of untested (or
was it unstable?) version of certain libraries (and interaction
between them) would screw up the system and in my eagerness to try the
new features, overrode the command and I messed up the system.

Now I am confident that I can come back to Debian 2.2r3 status
all right, but going a little far is now a matter of my quest.

Thank you again for the helpful tips so far.

(In my previous post, I meant to say that I was checking the Linux system
from my second partition, and writing the e-mail from a different
sun box at the office. I was  so excited about the ordeal and
my head wasn't working right.)


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