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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:47:38
Message-Id: 58965d8a0812081547q6c88b369p68b0bda91d2e7add@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > I've rebuild everything mc uses to no avail. I made a "quickpgk glibc"
3 > before upgrading in hope to revert back if something like this happens, but
4 > I was not aware of this:
5 >
6 >
7 > emerge --usepkgonly glibc
8 > Calculating dependencies... done!
9 >
10 > >>> Emerging binary (1 of 1) sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602
11 > * glibc-2.8_p20080602.tbz2 MD5 SHA1 size ;-) [ ok ]
12 > >>> Extracting info
13 > * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
14 > * Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction
15 >
16 >
17 > I just got owned?
18
19 Wow, I never knew about that either. There is some discussion in this old bug:
20
21 http://bugs.gentoo.org/238521
22
23 It looks like you can edit the glibc ebuild and force it if you know
24 it'll be okay.
25
26 Good luck :)
27
28 paul