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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.2.4-r6 should be fixed
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:36:14
Message-Id: 1008963291.21451.749.camel@nosferatu.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.2.4-r6 should be fixed by Daniel Robbins
1 On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 21:12, Daniel Robbins wrote:
2 > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:07:29PM -0600, Tod M. Neidt wrote:
3 >
4 > > Philosophical question, can something similar to glibc-2.2.4-r6 be done
5 > > when merging other libraries, i.e. X, gnome or kde?
6 >
7 > Yes, in fact, it should all work now automagically. The problem with glibc
8 > 2.2.4-r5 is that I thought it would work automagically with glibc too, but
9 > it still needed some help. All "normal" libraries can now be upgraded in-
10 > place, safely. This is with Portage 1.7.8+.
11 >
12
13 Hi
14
15 Just a question to satisfy my curiosity. How does this work?
16 Does portage now keep a copy of the old libs? And if so,
17 isnt things going to get cluttered ?
18
19
20 Thanks
21
22 --
23
24 Martin Schlemmer
25 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
26 Cape Town, South Africa

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Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.2.4-r6 should be fixed Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>