[gobolinux-users] Re: Compiling Glibc 2.3.6

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

On Thu, 11 May 2006 09:01:17 -0300
Rafael Guterres Jeffman <rafael at tteng.com.br> wrote:

> Sean E. Russell wrote:
> 
> >Am I the only one who thinks this is a fairly significant problem?
> >  
> >
> It is a very significant problem. But upgrading Glibc is a problem in 
> every distribution. On Debian updating it means that you will have to 
> update a lot of packages (often more than with a "distupgrade").
> 
> Although, updating Glibc is not done often, and could no be done at
> all. I'm still running 2.3.2 and I'm happy with it. Glibc should only
> be updated on major changes.
> 
> I vote that Glibc is only "updatable" when we release a new version
> of the entire distro, and it should not be available as a Recipe on
> the "standard store", or as a binary package. Maybe it is time for a 
> "Development Store", and that each new version of GoboLinux comes
> with a "update distro" option/script.
> 
> The only reason I see for "forcing an update" is when a serious
> security flaw is found on Glibc, otherwise, all one gets is marginal
> benefits for too much trouble.

I upgraded to Glibc 2.3.5 with NPTL (from source) when I wanted support for HAL 0.5.4 (and D-Bus 0.50).

Can't remember how I actually managed to do the update, but I remember having troubles... Did I mail the list about it?

/Jonatan    -=( http://kymatica.com )=-