Re: upgrading ldso (because executor does not work)
> I'm trying to upgrade from ldso_1.8.10-2.deb to ldso_1.9.6-2.deb
> because I can't get executor to run. I can run it under slackware
> just fine, and one of the differences is the ld.so itself. I've
> tried preloading the various other libraries with copies from the
> slackware distro. No luck.
>
> Back on the subject; what I wanted to do was to boot of the rescue
> disk, and mount the root as /target then use dpkg -root=/target -i name.deb
> to upgrade the ldso.
>
> I want to do it from the boot floppy so I can back up to ldso_1.8.10-2.deb
> if something goes wrong. Of course if something does go wrong it means the
> only way I can fix is by booting of the rescue floppy, since the machine
> probably won't boot. (call be paranoid if you want)
>
> dpkg -i does not work when you boot of the rescue floppy, it complaings
> about "sysinfo" symbol not found (can't remember the exact error).
>
> Can anybody offer me some clues as to how I can acomplish what I want to do.
Just don't be stupid, and have *some* trust in David Engel. He's a
very compitent maintainer, and has been for a long time. The ld.so
package he maintains does not screw your system if you just upgrade
to it.
If you are really paranoid, or have other reasons to mistrust
David, then you should just keep a copy of /lib (preferably the whole
dir, it isn't that big) somewhere else on the root partition. Then,
even if David's ldso postrm does "rm -rf /lib", you can boot from
floppy, and just move/copy your backup of /lib to /lib.
> Just my $.02 on the matter. I'm not that far off from switching to
> some other distro, like redhat to avoid some of these problems, along with
> the poor documentation on building your own packages and awkward pacakge
> selection/management. I've dealt with a lot of different distributions in
> my life, SGI, DEC, SUN, slackware, debian, redhat, they all have their set
> of problems and advantages. Whatever works I guess.
Debian's ld.so doesn't have the disadvantage that it will currupt your
system even when you just install the package.
Note, that it *does* have the disadvantage that it will make your system
totally unusable when you *downgrade* from the hamm version to the bo
version. But the advice is: *DONT DO THAT*!
Thanks,
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