On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 02:25:56 -0500
nDiScReEt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 14 July 2002 6:23 pm, James wrote:
> > OK! this may solve my problem as well... This matches my kernel ...
> > now the question comes.... Does this mean that Mandrake has to build
> > a new glibc for every older distro when 2.6 comes out? Or do they
> > just never receive the benefit of a new kernel? Same thing for RH
> > ...
>
> Sadly, that looks to exactly be the case ...all systems will have to
> upgrade their glibc with it's respective kernel-header rpm in order to
> use the new 2.4.18 and up kernels. I don't have the official word so
> this is completely all conjecture based purely off of logic.
It is not and has never been the practice of any disto to provide
upgrades for previous releases.
This has always been the responsibility of the user.
Either by installation of a distro's 'newer' release or by building from
src the 'updated' app.
This applies to glibc, kernel, or any other app.
What has been/is offered are 'updates', which during initial release
period provide for bug fixes but thereafter addresses only security
issues as with the 2.4 kernel and Apache "updates" for Mandrake 8.0.
Charles
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