Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 15.37 +0100, Sebastian Pipping ha scritto: > Portage will propose a downgrade of glibc on emerge-update-world, okay. > How bad would that be? Does it cause any other trouble?
And glibc will refuse to downgrade unless you hack the ebuild. Now let's say that the user rebuilt gcc after the glibc upgrade, and now forces downgrade; after forcing downgrade, gcc will fail to find the symbols with higher versioning (GNU versioning), which means it won't run. > In your eyes, is there anything we can do to improve the current situation? Every time a base package changes that could cause huge breakage, mask, send a message to q...@gentoo.org to start up testing ebuild $foo with an unmask list, and wait till we give the go before unmasking. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
