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From: Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade -> re-emerge system?
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:27:37
Message-Id: 20071108181627.05ac936a@pascal.spore.ath.cx
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade -> re-emerge system? by Alexander Skwar
1 On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:05:09 +0100
2 Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote:
3
4 > Hello!
5 >
6 > This morning, I upgraded to glibc 2.7 from whatever used to be current
7 > in ~x86 before that (2.6.xxxx).
8 >
9 > Do you guys do a "emerge -e system", ie. recompile everything, after
10 > such an upgrade?
11 >
12 > Thanks,
13 >
14 > Alexander Skwar
15
16 no way dude.
17
18 The only problem that you might run into is that new
19 packages built thereafter were built against different versions of
20 glibc, and that's what revdep rebuild is for.
21
22 I think of glibc upgrades as emerges that take a considerable amount of
23 time but are in essence trivial.
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