[gobolinux-users] Re: Compiling Glibc 2.3.6 (Sean E.

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 5/18/06, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/06, V <mkdm_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On the Glibc issue,
> >
> > I agree 100% with Sean's comments ("SER") about Glibc.
> >
> > I've tried to install Gobo packages that say my glibc
> > is out of date, would I like to upgrade?  I say "y"
> > and then after some time the sytem is hosed -- the
> > glibc update didn't work out.  How was I to know that
> > this is a recipe that must be handled carefully?
> >
> > I think that if the Recipe (glibc in this case) cannot
> > be used without some magic, it shouldn't be made
> > generally available like any other Recipe.  I also
> > think that any Recipe that lists a Glibc version as a
> > dependency should be tripple-checked -- if one
> > mistakenly answers "y" to upgrade all, system recovery
> > is is painful.
>
> Good point, especially the "any Recipe that lists a Glibc version as a
> dependency should be tripple-checked" one. Until we have a way to list
> version ranges in dependencies, Recipes shouldn't list a Glibc version
> other than that shipped in the latest ISO.

Ok, I'm reserving some days from the next week to do recipe revisions.
The time has come for you, broken recipes!

;-)

-- 
Lucas
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