Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:29 on Sunday 22 August 2010, Arttu V. did
> opine thusly:
>
> > On 8/22/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> 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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