> Of course! > > Just use rpm's -i flag (install) and not -U (upgrade) and make sure > to run each ldconfig afterward (the rpm script probably does it for you > anyway, but it wont hurt to make sure). > > ld.so is supposed to sort out which program needs to get which lib on > it's own but if some specific program will cease to work regardless with > the new library you can force it to use the old one by using LD_PRELOAD
But why? If he just needs 1 or 2 or just few packages from a newer version of GLIBC 2.3 based distribution, it would be much easier to just rebuild those RPMS, then fiddling with LD_PRELOAD IMHO... Thanks, Hetz ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
