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On Tuesday 17 November 2009 17.06.45 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Yes, I have read this in |
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> /var/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/pkg_setup.eblit |
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> and I understand the risks. |
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> if has_version '>'${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then |
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> eerror "Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:" |
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> eerror " Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to |
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> destruction" die "aborting to save your system" |
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> fi |
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> I want to do it anyway. |
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> A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free(): invalid |
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> pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11 |
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> A simple downgrade doesn't work - too many apps will not start including |
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> bash. Has anyone done this or knows of a howto? I'm happy to rebuild a few |
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> critical apps statically if that's what it takes. I'm not happy chasing |
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> down half the system to do it :-) |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293527 |
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Fixed in upstream so should be fix in Gentoo soon. |
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/Naga |