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From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@chemoelectric.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Glibc Update Breaks Open/LibreOffice -- Can't Downgrade
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 22:10:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110706031032.GA8466@crud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110705213148.ca51f2ac.frank.peters@comcast.net>

Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> skribis:
>  * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
>  *  Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction
>  * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r2 failed (setup phase):
>  *   aborting to save your system
> 
> I'm not going to break my system.  How do I override this?

Copy or overlay the one glibc ebuild with a copy of the good one. It
is hard to tell which ebuilds you mean, but I think the difference may
be just the patch set.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-06  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-06  1:31 [gentoo-amd64] Glibc Update Breaks Open/LibreOffice -- Can't Downgrade Frank Peters
2011-07-06  2:28 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-07-06  3:11   ` Frank Peters
2011-07-06  5:22     ` Paul Hartman
2011-07-06 16:08       ` Frank Peters
2011-07-06 17:26         ` Barry Schwartz
2011-07-06 17:40         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-07-06 18:57           ` Frank Peters
2011-07-06 22:20     ` Benny Pedersen
2011-07-08 21:06     ` James Cloos
2011-07-06  3:10 ` Barry Schwartz [this message]

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