Re: New libc6 breaks exim?
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:36:10PM -0400 , Greg Stark wrote:
> Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 09:45:01AM -0400 , Greg Stark wrote:
> > > Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
> > >
> > > > There is missing a depends or conflicts on libc6 to force libdb2 upgrade.
> > > > And there are still problems with GLIBC_2.x symbols ...
> > >
> > > No that's not what he said. You can't fix library incompatibilities with
> > > Debian package conflicts or depends since there might be local compiles on the
> > > machine or third party applications from other distributions that break.
> >
> > Hmm. I wonder how does RH7 deal with this ...
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> > > You have to change the soname and allow the old libdb2 to be installed _at the
> > > same time_. That way applications compiled against the old libdb2 still work.
> >
> > hmm. but that will break us even more with every one else ...
>
> You're saying Redhat released version 7 with a beta glibc and a libdb2 that
> isn't abi compatible but didn't bump the soname? That's incredible if true!?
No. I didn't know, but checked it some minutes ago. They use db2 from
glibc-2.1.3 sources, so they are db2 compatible
Petr Cech
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