Re: tlug: Glibc 2.1.3 out

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Austin K. Kurahone wrote:

> Since y'all seem to enjoy this sort of news, a new version of glibc is
> out. (I have no idea if any of the I18N stuff has changed BTW, just
> passing the news on).
> 
> As a word from the wise (or very foolish since I'm speaking from
> experience) if you have a evil distribution that depends on a package
> manager (Especially RPM) I don't recomend installing this since it's one
> sure way to screw up your database. (I suppose you could use the
> install_root option to put it somewhere safe though.)  Then again knowing
> the Debian folks they'll have .debs in the "woody" *snicker*  tree by that
> time nodoubt.

Or you could just modify the RPM .spec yourself and try to rebuild your
own RPM... that's what I usually do when I install software on my own
machine, I build an RPM out of it by hand, so that my dependency
database/etc all matches up.

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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