Thanks to everybody who commented on this matter.
I have all the precautions in place (one partition for experimenting
with, and several for normal use---well, I do have 10 gig of disc to
play with :-)).
I guess the only thing left for me to do is to decide if I want to
see yet another spectacul
Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > > >if you have to ask these questions i think you should not be compiling
> > > >libc.
> > > [more snippage]
> > >
> > > Perhaps, but then I would not be able to do some of the things that
> > > I do want to.
> >
> > Namely?
>
> To run software that requires 2.2 without ha
Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> Kin Chung wrote:
> >
> > >Ethan Benson wrote:
> > >On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:01:37PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >what security problem? add potato r3 has all the current libc
> > >security fixes. or is there a new one im not aware of?
> >
> > Oops. I'm runni
> > About the biggest possible risk apart from messing with the kernel.
>
> no much worse, there is no `boot: linux.old' for libc.
But there's a 'boot: linux root=/dev/' I hope. Should I ever
mess with libc, I'd make damn sure there's another bootable root
filesystem on my disk left to use for rep
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:23:28AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> About the biggest possible risk apart from messing with the kernel.
no much worse, there is no `boot: linux.old' for libc.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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Kin Chung wrote:
>
> >Ethan Benson wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:01:37PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote:
> [snip]
> >what security problem? add potato r3 has all the current libc
> >security fixes. or is there a new one im not aware of?
>
> Oops. I'm running r2 and there was a security alert in
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:07:39PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote:
> >Ethan Benson wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:01:37PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote:
> [snip]
> >what security problem? add potato r3 has all the current libc
> >security fixes. or is there a new one im not aware of?
>
> Oops. I'm runnin
Ethan Benson wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:01:37PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote:
[snip]
what security problem? add potato r3 has all the current libc
security fixes. or is there a new one im not aware of?
Oops. I'm running r2 and there was a security alert in April
for glibc 2.1.3-x, for some
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:01:37PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote:
> If this is the wrong place to ask this question, please let
> me know which mailing list is appropriate.
>
> I was trying to recompile glibc, partly because of the security
> problem (and partly for my own masochistic desires), and I fou
If this is the wrong place to ask this question, please let
me know which mailing list is appropriate.
I was trying to recompile glibc, partly because of the security
problem (and partly for my own masochistic desires), and I found
that one of the maintainers had upgraded the kernel header
requir
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