On Thursday 10 February 2011 00:02:07 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:48:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > And it's very difficult to downgrade it due to that hidden barf check > > in the ebuild. I have yet to find a supported, documented way to back > > out of glibc screw-ups; my way is to keep binpkgs of @system and use > > those. > > The trouble is that binpkgs keep a copy of the ebuild in them, so even if > you remove the downgrade check fro the in-tree ebuild, it still fails. > That one had me scratching my head for a few minutes.
what happens if you remove the entry in /var/db? >From gentoo's point of view, glibc suddenly is not installed. You are free to choose a version.
