Since 013 final is coming soon, its probably time for us to start compile official packages with Glibc 2.4.
At this moment, packages at the official repository are all compiled against Glibc 2.3.2. Packages compiled with Glibc 2.4 (including most of the 013 packages) were kept separate, at http://rsync.gobolinux.org/013-packages/ The question is: how is the best way to perform this transition? Once one has Glibc 2.4 installed, old Glibc 2.3.2 based packages still work well, so I think it is be ok to keep the old packages at the official repository. The procedure for safely installing Glibc 2.4 in a exiting system is quite simple, but requires a small additional step: 1 - Become superuser # a superuser terminal has to be open before running step 2 # since you will not be able to perform 'su' or 'sudo' after step 2 and before step 3 2 - InstallPackage Glibc--2.4--i686.tar.bz2 # there is no need to update any file inside the Settings directory 3 - cd /Programs/Glibc; mv 2.3.2 old_2.3.2 # a rm -rf could be performed as well, but having keeping a backup may be useful # if something goes wrong (having a live cd copy available might be also useful :) The most straightforward for us would be to ask users to perform this upgrade when willing to use never packages, but I'm not sure how can we enforce this. -- Andre Detsch _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
