> From: John Burrell <john_burr...@hotmail.com>
> To: LFS Developers Mailinglist <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:49:31 +0000
> Subject: Re: [lfs-dev] Updating the dynamic linker
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> Before I decide how best to proceed with is, would you tell me please how the
> distros update the file ld-2.18.so and the symlink ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
> without crashing the system. They don't appear to use a /tools dir so do they
> tar the files into the directories?
>
- here's some wider-picture pointers to how one distro does upgrade from
one major version to another - it's essentially untarring, but in a
specific sequence (and with a lot of checks'n'balances):
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(1) ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/UPGRADE.TXT
The tarballs referenced in '(1)' can be found under:
(2) ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/slackware64/
The 'upgradepkg' and 'removepkg' referenced in '(1)' are shell-scripts and
can be found - along with 'installpkg' &c - in:
(3)
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/slackware64/a/pkgtools-*.tgz
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hth,
akh
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