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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glibc prevented by emerge/portage...but why initiated?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:50:34
Message-Id: 21212112.530Ne64aNG@porto
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glibc prevented by emerge/portage...but why initiated? by tuxic@posteo.de
1 Am Dienstag, 12. September 2017, 05:43:59 CEST schrieb tuxic@××××××.de:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > got a problem this morning:
5 > >>> Verifying ebuild manifests
6 > >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-libs/glibc-2.24-r4
7 >
8 > * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
9 > * Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction
10
11 ... because I accidentally removed 2.24-r4 instead of 2.24-r3.
12
13 Got fixed a few hours later as soon as someone filed a bug.
14 (I wanted to keep the last 2.24 revision.)
15
16 --> so, file bugs! :)
17
18 That said, 2.24 won't go stable; the current stable candidate is 2.25-r5.
19
20 --
21 Andreas K. Hüttel
22 dilfridge@g.o
23 Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

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