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Re: removing old 2.1 headers
- To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>
- Subject: Re: removing old 2.1 headers
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 04 Sep 2000 10:57:18 -0700
- Cc: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <14771.39274.687559.445757@honolulu.ilog.fr><20000904161658.A667@suse.de>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:
> I think the problem is: How to make sure that this files are really
> from glibc 2.1.x ?
> Somebody could have installed them from an extra package, because
> glibc 2.2 does not provide them any longer, but he need them.
That's true but normally the order of actions will be
update glibc
add now missing libraries
So in theory I wouldn't have a problem but maybe we shouldn't do this
unless these package managers complain if they find a file of the same
name already being there. How's this handled?
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