On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:43:46 +0200, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/22/06, André Detsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. > > Talking about Glibc, don't we need to instruct InstallPackage to take > them from the 013 store instead of the old one? I'm thinking about > letting it take into account /System/Settings/GoboLinuxVersion, using > the 012 store as a fallback. I know this is a bit later, but I forgot > about this topic until now. What do you think? > I didn't read this mail until I had answered the parent message, but I share your opinion on having separate repositories and falling back to pre-013 repository for 013+, when there's no package in the primary repo. How about the old systems? Shouldn't we still make packages for glibc 2.3.x, at least for bugfixes in central apps. Or will we enforce users to upgrade glibc? -- /Jonas Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
