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From: Nagatoro <nagatoro@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:46:27
Message-Id: 200911171945.50778.nagatoro@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10 by Alan McKinnon
1 On Tuesday 17 November 2009 17.06.45 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Yes, I have read this in
3 > /var/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/pkg_setup.eblit
4 > and I understand the risks.
5 >
6 > if has_version '>'${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then
7 > eerror "Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:"
8 > eerror " Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to
9 > destruction" die "aborting to save your system"
10 > fi
11 >
12 > I want to do it anyway.
13 >
14 > A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free(): invalid
15 > pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11
16 >
17 > A simple downgrade doesn't work - too many apps will not start including
18 > bash. Has anyone done this or knows of a howto? I'm happy to rebuild a few
19 > critical apps statically if that's what it takes. I'm not happy chasing
20 > down half the system to do it :-)
21
22 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293527
23
24 Fixed in upstream so should be fix in Gentoo soon.
25
26 /Naga