Does anyone know the best way to upgrade glibc libraries?  I always do a 'rpm -Uvh glibc-<version>.i586.rpm'
But that make my system a little bit unstable since most programs make use of glibc in one way or another. 
 
After I do an upgade of glibc I always reboot my computer,  but I experience problems like:  Some programs won't gracefully die and the root filesystem refuses to umount which can lead to loss of files (luckily never happend).  This also happens when I do the upgade in single usermode.  
 
 I think it would be a good thing to boot from a floppy disk or something like that.  Mount '/' (root fs) manually and then do the upgrade and umount filesystems like root filesystem ('/')  manually again.  I never had experience with this.  Can anyone share his/her opinion on this matter?  If anyone has other opinions on "savely" upgrade glibc  please let me know. All suggestions/tips are welcome.
 
Thanks,
Marcus

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