I was able to upgrade to this version of glibc with no problems as of yet.
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 10:16, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 22:21, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > I can't quite believe that I've lost the entire system to a > > routine package update on the stable tree. > > Well, in fairness, one should never upgrade a core library, especially > glibc, except as part of a major planned system upgrade. > > We get so used to Gentoo rocking in most situations that unfortunately > it's easy to forget that we can't get away from the tribulations the > other distros go through to find a stable > gcc+glibc+core+bin+file+libs+... combination. > > Mucking with any of those things invites a full regression system > rebuild at best and a disaster at worst. > > Use space apps, on the other hand (up to and including GNOME!) are > awesome to rebuild if as and when you have a reason to. > > > As soon as I realised I mailed > > the list. > > Which is much appreciated by the rest of us - and the strength of the > Gentoo community! > > I'm very sorry that your machine got hosed. Let me know if there's > anything I can do to help on rebuild. > > AfC > Sydney > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
