Re: problems in upgrade
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
> The libdb.so.3 in libdb2, that is historic from libc6 2.1.x, is not
> going to be used by newly compiled programs (those compiled against
> libc6 2.2, as opposed to libc6 2.1).
How many packages compiled against the old libdb.so.3 are there?
Would be possible to get rid of them in woody by recompiling and
remove the dependency of libc6 on libdb2 altogether?
> We could always do what redhat has done, and copy the libdb.so.3 from
> the glibc 2.1.3 binaries, and use them in the libdb2 package. That means
> it will work when 2.1.3 is still installed, and before libc6 2.2.x is
> unpacked. The solution will work, since we don't need libdb.so.3
> compatibility for new archs (since they have never compiled anything
> against it).
>
> I loathe this solution, but if it's prefered, I'll implment it.
This sounds better than an unsolved dependency/pre-dependency loop,
and even better than recompiling a lot of packages.
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