On 3/5/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. michael@ ~]ls -l /Programs/Scripts/Current lrwxrwxrwx 1 gobo gobo 5 Mar 1 22:35 /Programs/Scripts/Current -> 2.6.2 I can't find a newer version in the repository, at least. Also: michael@ ~]uname -r 2.6.17.11-Gobo michael@ ~]ls -l /Programs/Glibc/Current lrwxrwxrwx 1 gobo gobo 3 Mar 5 22:23 /Programs/Glibc/Current -> 2.4
Everything other than Scripts, BootScripts, Firefox, and Freshen is the out-of-the-box version from 013. The InstallPackage command was `InstallPackage -b -D -u keep Glibc 2.5`; would a different version be better? -Michael _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
