[LinuxPPS] ldattach + Debian Lenny

[Joshua Anhalt]

This is the equivalent of installing a Fedora Core 10 package on a  
fedora core 8 machine.  Or OpenSUSE 11 on a 10.1 machine, etc...

They're compiled with different versions of gcc, against different  
versions of glibc, kernel headers, etc.

It may just work, but a program could easily fail to dynamically link  
with the older libraries.  (Or gcc may have changed the calling order  
of library functions, all sorts of badness may crop up.)

You could grab the debian source package from sid, and have dpkg  
recompile on the local machine.  That should work and be clean. (It  
may correctly, or lazily require a newer version of various support  
libraries, which can snowball fast.)

Joshua

On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:

> Joshua Anhalt wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I don't know of a safe way to use the unstable  
>> package  on a stable machine. (Personally, I would not want to mix  
>> packages,  especially for something as fundamental as util-linux.   
>> I would  recommend compiling ldattach from source.)
>
> You can't just download a package and install it?
> util-linux is stable as whatever and I suppose the Debian  
> maintainers do not change too much in there. One package doesn't  
> hurt, I assume.
> Maybe just check the bugs first filed for the 'unstable' util-linux(- 
> ng)?