Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Hi Alan, a suggestion - for "mission critical" clone one of your systems
into a vm (dd), get it working, upgrade and test.

Or clone to a chroot and do the same.

Not quite 100% - but allows some peace of mind!

BillK

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 17:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 August 2010 15:21:35 Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:33:09 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet?
> > > 
> > > I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1,
> > > and downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only
> > > comment I can find at this early stage is flameeye's blog, and
> > > this makes me quadruple nervous:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > And if you say that “the new GLIBC works for me”, are you saying
> > > that the package itself builds or if it’s actually integrated
> > > correctly? Because, you know, I used to rebuild the whole system
> > > whenever I made a change to basic system packages when I
> > > maintained Gentoo/FreeBSD, and saying that it’s ready for ~arch
> > > when you haven’t even rebuilt the system (and you haven’t, or you
> > > would have noticed that m4 was broken) is definitely something
> > > I’d define as reckless and I’d venture to say you’re not good
> > > material to work on the quality assurance status.
> > > 
> > > “correctness” in the case of the system C library would be “it a
> > > t least leaves the system set building and running”; glibc 2.12
> > > does not work this way.
> > 
> > OK here on ~amd64, but you got me worried so I emerged m4 to check
> > and that went OK too.
> 
> 
> I got a couple of replies, all like this one - positive.
> 
> Thanks, all. I'll start the update later on tonight and let 'er run.
> 
> 
> 

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