On 3/5/07, Michael Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > While working on Freshen I managed to break my system by having it > automatically install a new Glibc package (I fixed it from another > distro, so that part's ok). But is there a safe way to do that? > > There's no minimum kernel dependency specified, which I guess was what > my problem was (the error was "FATAL: kernel too old" on every > command) and it died at the point of ldconfig. Fixing it I had to run > ldconfig -r ... from Gentoo and copy the cache file into > /P/Glibc/Settings, which I really can't expect anybody else to be > forced to do unsuspectingly. > > I seem to remember some talk a while back about it being safe to > upgrade Glibc now, and InstallPackage will prompt to install a new one > if it's necessary, so I assume that there is a way to make it happen - > but what is it? > > At the moment I'm just blacklisting it from the dependency tree > entirely, but that does cause problems when it tries to install newer > packages.
Were you running an updated version of Scripts? The current version should handle Glibc installation fine. -- Lucas powered by /dev/dsp _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
