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Re: upgrade problem
Frederic Lepied <flepied@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
|> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
|>
|> > >
|> > > It's a good proposition but it doesn't work because the old glibc
|> > > doesn't use this scheme and will load the libnss_foo.so.2 which points
|> > > to the new one...
|> > >
|> > > That said, it can be done for the future...
|> >
|> > Exactly...
|>
|> So we have to change the sonames to be able to handle the upgrade...
Let's face it: you just can't upgrade libc in a running system. The only
option you have is to leave out all runtime links to shared libraries
during install and create them only at the next reboot.
Andreas.
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