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From: Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading glibc
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 06:11:02
Message-Id: 1503296142.4177.1.camel@st.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading glibc by Nils Freydank
1 On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 16:25 +0200, Nils Freydank wrote:
2 > Hi Raffaele,
3 >
4 > Am Freitag, 18. August 2017, 09:00:52 CEST schrieb Raffaele Belardi:
5 > > […]
6 > > Downgrading the system to glibc to 2.23-r3 means trouble?
7 >
8 > yes, you would crush your system. Therefore the even the ebuild
9 > prohibits it
10 > (you can enforce it, but you really shouldn’t).
11 >
12 > You can a) brick you system: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-84
13 > 5000.html
14 > or b) create a chroot with a blank system (new stage 3), emerge your
15 > package,
16 > create a binpkg, install that on the host and hope it works.
17 >
18
19 Message loud and clear, better search for a different solution or wait
20 for a fix!
21
22 thanks,
23
24 raffaele