Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-25 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 15:42 -0400, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Declan Moriarty stated: Why not upgrade? With alfs, the lfs section of the build can be fairly painless. OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as creating /lfs on the system, doing the build chrooted there,

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-25 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 15:22 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: That's when I discovered lfs... now that I know what goes into the system, why it's there, and what it does, I don't break anything irreplacable any more. Yup. No better way of learning which parts of the system are important than to

upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' glibc without all hell breaking loose. Pointers? (Is this the right

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Douglas J Hunley wrote these words on 08/24/05 13:45 CST: Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' glibc

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' glibc without all

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/24/05, Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' glibc without

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Douglas J Hunley wrote these words on 08/24/05 14:42 CST: OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as creating /lfs on the system, doing the build chrooted there, and then going to single user mode and moving everything from /lfs/* to / ? Many different methods you can

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Douglas J Hunley wrote: OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as creating /lfs on the system, doing the build chrooted there, and then going to single user mode and moving everything from /lfs/* to / ? Same as with any other host, i.e. use a

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Ken Moffat stated: Same as with any other host, i.e. use a spare partition.  For many people, the spare partition will be the one which held the host from which they built lfs the first time.  From a host running a 2.4 kernel, also upgrade to a 2.6 kernel before you start the build (for

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Declan Moriarty wrote these words on 08/24/05 17:11 CST: Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as creating /lfs on the system, doing the build chrooted there, and then going to single user mode and moving everything from

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:45 -0400, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' glibc