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Re: upgrade problem


On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:05:33AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.

Actually that's completely incorrect. Except for this NSS issue, there are
next to zero problems on upgrading libc in place. Debian has been doing it
for years now.

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