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On Sunday 05 April 2009, Richard Freeman wrote: |
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> P.V.Anthony wrote: |
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> > Feeling a little worried as these are live servers. |
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> > Should these upgrades be done? If these upgrades are done, do all the |
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> > applications need to be recompiled? |
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> FYI - quickpkg is your friend in these kinds of situations. You can |
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> then back out pretty quickly. However, if you start merging packages |
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> left and right after a glibc upgrade be VERY careful about downgrading |
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> your glibc - that can very easily break things. If glibc is the only |
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> thing that you've upgraded I suspect a downgrade would go ok. |
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except that portage blocks glibc downgrades - good thing - you can just |
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extract the tbz quickpkg created in / and have the old one. |
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