Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:29 on Sunday 22 August 2010, Arttu V. did 
> opine thusly:
> 
> > On 8/22/10, covici@ccs.covici.com <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > > Hi.  I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged --
> > > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however
> > > after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to
> > > S_ISCHR.   I tried to downgrade glibc, but apparently this is not
> > > supported and I am a bit stumped as to how to fix this problem.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Which package is failing? Please check if it is already reported, and
> > if not then please report a new bug, and if possible make it block
> > this tracker bug:
> > 
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331665
> > 
> > A wild guess out of the blue would be that the error could be simply a
> > missing include of stat.h in the package's sources. But there might be
> > other omissions as well, so please provide more info.
> > 
> > I think that unless API/ABIs were changed then the older, already
> > installed version should still work just fine, as then the missing
> > includes would only affect compile-time situation.
> 
> 
> There is a way to downgrade for the brave.
> 
> quickpkg glibc
> move the 2.11.? version ebuild you want to your local overlay.
> Edit it and find the check that disallows downgrades. Comment it out.
> Mask glibc2.12
> update glibc
> 
> At this point it's probably very wise to rebuild at least system, then revdep-
> rebuild. Note that rebuilding system might fail in which case you are really 
> up the creek.
> 
> Feel free to rip to pieces the dev that committed this version. It could not 
> possibly have undergone decent testing

I have another idea -- what would I have to restore from backup to
completely cancel the entire update process I have done since yesterday
-- and then I could mask off the bad glibc and be back to something at
least somewhat consistent?


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