[gobolinux-devel] Upgrading Glibc

[Michael Homer]

Hi,
While working on Freshen I managed to break my system by having it
automatically install a new Glibc package (I fixed it from another
distro, so that part's ok). But is there a safe way to do that?

There's no minimum kernel dependency specified, which I guess was what
my problem was (the error was "FATAL: kernel too old" on every
command) and it died at the point of ldconfig. Fixing it I had to run
ldconfig -r ... from Gentoo and copy the cache file into
/P/Glibc/Settings, which I really can't expect anybody else to be
forced to do unsuspectingly.

I seem to remember some talk a while back about it being safe to
upgrade Glibc now, and InstallPackage will prompt to install a new one
if it's necessary, so I assume that there is a way to make it happen -
but what is it?

At the moment I'm just blacklisting it from the dependency tree
entirely, but that does cause problems when it tries to install newer
packages.
-Michael