Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Glibc Update Breaks Open/LibreOffice -- Can't Downgrade
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:03:32
Message-Id: 20110706031032.GA8466@crud
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Glibc Update Breaks Open/LibreOffice -- Can't Downgrade by Frank Peters
1 Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis:
2 > * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
3 > * Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction
4 > * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r2 failed (setup phase):
5 > * aborting to save your system
6 >
7 > I'm not going to break my system. How do I override this?
8
9 Copy or overlay the one glibc ebuild with a copy of the good one. It
10 is hard to tell which ebuilds you mean, but I think the difference may
11 be just the patch set.