Re: glibc2.1 with slink... will stuff break?
If you really need glibc2.1, upgrade to potato. Just sticking glibc2.1 into slink
will undoubtedly do nasty things.
Sean
Craig McPherson wrote:
> Can anyone point me towards a document on installing glibc2.1
> under slink? I could have sworn that I found such a reference
> somewhere, but now I can't seem to find it again.
>
> Anyway, is it a relatively safe matter of downloading a few updated
> packages & working out dependencies (which is about all I can
> handle right now), or is there more to it than that?
>
> Any pointers appreciated; thanks.
>
> For those who remember my concern about having mounted a
> seperate filesystem as /lib: I found that I couldn't umount the
> filesystem while the system was running, because the files were in
> use, so I just bit the bullet, took the mount out of fstab, copied all the
> libs over to a backup, prayed, and rebooted. A couple of daemons
> wouldn't start because of missing libraries, but once I copied the
> backups back over to the proper /lib, everything worked just fine.
> whew
>
> --
> Craig McPherson
> The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR
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>
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>
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