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Re: glibc and associated packages in incoming



On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> Hrm, when you get a working fakeroot I can install glibc2.1 on saens and
> you guys can start testing things out without wrecking your home systems..
> But it is pretty useless without a working fakeroot :<

Agreed.  I should probably have it by Thursday at the latest.  It looks
trivial, but you never know with that code (it's ugly).

> Does APT order this installation correctly if you ask it to simply install
> ibc6.1? We definately should try to get the dependencys/conflicts worked
> out from the start!

I'm not sure.  That's the one thing I didn't try yet.  I'm really just
mentioning it since the x86'ers were complaining about that.

> Hmm, I belive the latest 0.1 series fixed a small segfault on the alphas,
> not sure. 0.3.2 should hit incoming soon which I know works on the alpha,
> I did lots and lots of testing on saens.

Great.  So far, no segfaults (am running it now).  I believe it just
needed it's dynamic linking fixed to the new situation.

C


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