[gobolinux-users] updating essentials

[Rohan Nicholls]

Thanks Dan and Lucas,

I am happy to leave glibc well alone.  I only thought of installing it 
because gcc said I should.

Okay, Freshen and otherwise I am pretty up to date.  Fabulous.

And the modprobe unionfs will be tested when I get home.

rohan

Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> On 7/12/06, Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls at pareto.nl> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I installed 012 the other day, and set about updating the essentials to
>> get things up to date and working.
>>
>> Has there been a lot of changes since 012 to the Scripts/Compile combo?
>>   I did the InstallPackage on them both, and after sorting out the
>> Directories.conf problem seemed to be up and running.  Is there
>> something else that should also be updated for the gobo core?
>>
>> Next stage:
>> I have upgraded gcc, and the kernel.  I tried glibc but it gave issues
>> and failed (I'll try and hunt up the error).  But there seems a bit of a
>> chicken and egg issue going on here, so which should be first? GCC,
>> Glibc, and then the kernel.
> 
> I would see only Scripts/Compile/GCC/kernel as essentials. I'm not
> aware of the current state of Manager, but it might be worth upgrading
> as well.
> 
> As for Glibc, I would say it's better to keep the one you have already
> installed, unless you're really looking for adventure and head aches
> :-)
>