Re: am I stuck with glibc2.2.5?

From: Enkidu (enkidu.com_at_com.cliffp.com)
Date: 04/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:18:25 +1200

Wiseguy wrote:
>
> Has anyone else discovered what a royal pain in the ass it is to
> upgrade from glibc 2.2.x to 2.3.x under Suse linux?
>
> It seems that Suse went to great lengths to make it next to impossible
> to upgrade glibc by their installing components in nonstandard locations,
> linking most of the system binaries with version specific objects,
> and not providing a real migration from 2.2 based systems to 2.3 unless
> the customer is willing to purchase a complete distro upgrade.
>
> Like other power users I have a system that started out as a stock
> suse 8.1 installation but because of my requirements I quickly ended
> up with a hybrid system because I've installed and upgraded bunches
> of packages directly from the GNU source on the net. At this point I
> simply cannot use the suse RPM upgrade procedures because they will
> corrupt my customizations.
>
You haven't got a SuSe Linux system then. If you installed
lots of tarballs, and ignored the packaging system that came
with your distro, then you are on your own.

You'd probably be better off with a source-based distro like
Gentoo or some LFS setup. Or FreeBSD.

What you are basically saying is "I buggered up the
packaging system and now it doesn't work". I have no
sympathy. None whatsoever.

Cheers,

Cliff 

-- 
Barzoomian the Martian - http://barzoomian.blogspot.com

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