Whenever I have looked into this topic in the past I have become lost and depressed in a mass of postings in other places warning about binary incompatibilities, the need to recompile most or all of my libraries, the danger of hosing my system entirely .. etc. In short, and without meaning any disrespect - the sxs guidance looks too good to be true. Is it really as easy as that? Won't I have to recompile most everything after the upgrade? Any other gotchas?
I assume that you're referring to the two entries that i wrote. As far as gcc is concerned, yes its that easy. Its damn hard to wreck your box by not building gcc right. As for glibc, its relatively safe, but there's always a possibility of disaster. Ironically, just today, i completely wrecked a box that was running Redhat-6.2, where i tried to upgrade straight to glibc-2.2.5 (it was runnning 2.1.2). But, most of that problem was just the enormity of the upgrade, as nothing else had been upgraded yet. I've successfully upgraded several other boxes' glibc without a hitch. While there are always going to be some exceptions, most things will _not_ need to be recompiled after upgrading glibc. Of course it also heavily depends on what version of glibc you have, and which you're upgrading to. rpm will have to be recompiled, as it depends heavily on glibc's locale libraries. zlib (and anything that depends on it) might also have to be recompiled. But none of that is a showstopper, and won't incapacitate your box if you can't get to it right away.
I my system well backed up - so I am not worried about losing it - but I don't want to get started only to screw up because the sxs guidance is assuming something(s) I don't know.
Well, i don't know what you don't know :) If you've got questions, or special circumstances, please ask. We're all hear to help.
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