Re: [gentoo-dev] hello

michael nazaroff wrote:
>
> Hello, what is the appropriate method to unmerge and merge glibc?  When I
> tried to well um it broke everything almost it could not deduce the who was
> the root, and lost control of the system.  I really like the package but the
> distro and package system are unfamiliar turf for me.
>

ebuild glibc-2.2.2-rx.ebuild merge does the job.Take a look at the
ebuild scripts pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst
functions. ld-linux.so.2 and libc.so.6 first get copied to tmp and
symlinked to /lib. Then the new glibc
gets installed on your running system.
After that the symlinks get changed to the libs installed by the new
glibc package.

If that step is finished you can savely unmerge the old glibc version
from your system (if you used an other
version for example glibc-2.2.1) using
ebuild /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc-2.2.1/glibe-2.2.1.ebuild unmerge. That
only removes the stuff that remained from your old glibc.

bye achim~


> Michael Nazaroff
>
> >From: Tom Flavel <thomasfl@××××××××××××.uk>
> >Reply-To: gentoo-dev@g.o
> >To: gentoo-dev@g.o
> >Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] hello
> >Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 15:10:32 +0100
> >
> >On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:03:57AM -0000, michael nazaroff wrote:
> > > Hello I'm new and just wanted to give everyone a heads up and a
> >greeting.
> > >
> >
> >Hi :)
> >
> >- Tom
> >
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