Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From:	Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To:	gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.2.4-r6 should be fixed
Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:38:17
Message-Id:	`20011221133817.B854@chiba.3jane.net`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.2.4-r6 should be fixed by Martin Schlemmer

1	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:34:43PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
2	> Hi
3	>
4	> Just a question to satisfy my curiosity. How does this work?
5	> Does portage now keep a copy of the old libs? And if so,
6	> isnt things going to get cluttered ?
7
8	Portage now "mv -f"'s the new files into place, which causes the new
9	.so file to have a new inode #, preventing crashes.
10
11	Best Regards,
12
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14	Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
15	Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
16	Gentoo Technologies, Inc.