On 10/18/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but have you actually tried to upgrade a glibc installation in-situ > (i.e. on the OS you're currently booted into)? I remember quite clearly > the effects that had when I accidentally replaced my host's glibc with > an LFS compiled version...it's not pretty, and yes, they were the same > version (2.3.4). This may well have been caused by the host having > vendor-specific patches, or being compiled with a different version of > gcc, but the experience has definitely put me off ever trying to do such > a thing on purpose! >
Yep, lot of times. If I remember correctly, my glibc-2.2 -> glibc-2.3 was like that, and so were many glibc-2.3 upgrades. Though recently I have started installing each package into a fakeroot and then copy the files over to their final destination. In the scenario you mentioned, though the vendor says glibc-2.3.4 it is in reality glibc-2.3.4 + patches from glibc cvs + vendor specific patches. So installing a prisitine glibc-2.3.4 is probably a downgrade rather than an upgrade :) -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
