Re: tlug: Glibc 2.1.3 out

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott M Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Austin K. Kurahone wrote:

    >> As a word from the wise (or very foolish since I'm speaking
    >> from experience) if you have a evil distribution that depends
    >> on a package manager (Especially RPM) I don't recomend
    >> installing this since it's one sure way to screw up your
    >> database.

    Scott> Or you could just modify the RPM .spec yourself and try to
    Scott> rebuild your own RPM... that's what I usually do when I
    Scott> install software on my own machine, I build an RPM out of
    Scott> it by hand, so that my dependency database/etc all matches
    Scott> up.

"The" RPM spec?  I don't recommend this with glibc on a Debian system.
Many other packages depend on having an exact value of glibc version.
You'd have to fix several dependency specs and rebuild.

If you do it right, the package manager will tell you which ones; but
it could trigger a cascade of dependencies.  (It might not, too, but
I'll wait for the .deb, which as Austin points out will probably be
available in the morning.)

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