On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > Thanks for your answer. You confirmed my fears about upgrading glibc. But > > that leaves 2 questions. > > > > 1 - why aren't these libraries backward compatible?
They are backward-compatible, but not forward compatible. > > Well, basically it should, but I've seen too many cases that it's not. Add to > that the fact that it was compiled with GCC 3.2 (my guess, I use RH), so > trying to upgrade GLIBC will guarantee you a fully fucked-up system, unless > you know what you're doing.. Why? > > > 2 - If I don't upgrade glibc I guess I'll have to compile the package I > > originally tried to upgrade (after downloading sources). But then I'd be > > bypassing RPM when I install my compiled version. Isn't that a bad idea on > > a system where everything has been installed via RPM? > > You can recompile the SRPM and install the new binaries that you created with > it. One note: did Mandrake add any new rpm macros? do you know if they have any new "rpm macros" package? -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
