On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > On 12 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > > > Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY REASONS WHY UTMP CORRUPTION IS SO EVIL THAT WE > > > NEED TO MAKE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO RUN A FEW LIBC6 PROGRAMS ON BO GO > > > THROUGH HELL. > > > > Say you're an ISP running Debian (bo) on a bunch of machines (and > > these people do exist). > > And I'm one of them. :) > > Here's a thought. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this utmp/libc6/libc5 > fiasco is something that applies to all (or almost all) Linux > distributions, no? (Or is libc6 a Debianism?) > > If everybody in the Linux game is migrating to libc6, then what are the > other piecewise-upgradable distributions (like RedHat) doing to avoid > ugliness like what we're facing?
They hid their libc6 system until the entire thing worked. I'm not entirely certain how they handle the upgrade, since I don't have a spare system to play with redhat at the moment. However, in the past, major redhat upgrades involved booting to single-user mode. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
