Re: tlug: Glibc 2.1.3 out

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

On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott M Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Scott> On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Austin K. Kurahone wrote:
> 
>     >> 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.
> 
>     Scott> Or you could just modify the RPM .spec yourself and try to
>     Scott> rebuild your own RPM... that's what I usually do when I
>     Scott> install software on my own machine, I build an RPM out of
>     Scott> it by hand, so that my dependency database/etc all matches
>     Scott> up.
> 
> "The" RPM spec?  I don't recommend this with glibc on a Debian system.
> Many other packages depend on having an exact value of glibc version.
> You'd have to fix several dependency specs and rebuild.
> 
> If you do it right, the package manager will tell you which ones; but
> it could trigger a cascade of dependencies.  (It might not, too, but
> I'll wait for the .deb, which as Austin points out will probably be
> available in the morning.)

yeah, but some people like to geek out doing that kind of thing...
building packages, compiling stuff, etc.  I like watching things compile.

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

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