Re: [gentoo-dev] GlibC

["Collins Richey" <erichey2@home.com>]

I don't have access to my archive right now, but I remember that Achim said
you need to update the compiler before trying to update glibc.

--
Collins Richey
Denver area

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathijs Kwik (-=TRoXX=-)" <troxx@segfault.nl>
To: <gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:20 AM
Subject: [gentoo-dev] GlibC


> Safe upgrading? :)
>
> I tried 2 things which both fail...
> using build-tarball:
> changing the bootstrap-file to use glibc-2.2.3-r1 instead of 2.2.3
> the build-tarball has 2.2.3-r1 allready installed so installing 2.2.3
would
> be stupid(but it's still in the bootstrap-file).
>
> and i also tried installing 2.2.3-r1 on a system with system=tarball
> extracted... which also has 2.2.3-r1 in it.
>
>
> so in both those cases I 'upgrade' a package to itself.
> and in both cases it breaks everything on the system...
> I don't know what exactly happens on the build-system.
> but on the system-system(wow:) I end up having a 0-byte libc-2.2.3.so
>
> so I don't know why this is... it's very easy to regenerate te error (did
it
> a few times, I thought it was just me:)
>
> so either portage has a buggy, or glibc 2.2.3-r1.ebuild is buggy (because
I
> never got it to build+installed using portage).
>
> please fix this or help me :)
>
>
> ---
>
>
> another small thing I don't like (and I'm not the only one, I spoke some
> guys on #gentoo who think the same)
> the portage-tree is TOOOO big :)
> there are things in it like diffs(some quite big) and even the
> logo-header-file(almost 2M).
> can't we just put all files/* stuff in a separate place on ibiblio/cvs and
> put them in ebuild-files? (or let portage check if there are any
> diffs/patches/additions)
> I mean the portage-tree should just contain enough info to download+build
> everything...
> having diff's in there for packages that I'm not gonna install anyway
seems
> useless to me.
>
> It's about 20M now... should be possible to reduce it to 2Mb :)
> not because of bandwith, just for clean design.
> Some others DO care about bandwith, which I can understand also.
>
>
> Greetings
> /Mathijs
>
>
>
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