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Re: What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
- Subject: Re: What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?
- From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 02:46:04 -0500
- cc: libc-alpha@cygnus.com
- cc: <gafton@redhat.com>
I would suggest to the distribution makers that they should start making a
separate glibc-nss package containing just the libnss_*.so libraries. Then
multiple glibc-nss packages can be simultaneously installed as needed, just
like other shared libraries. That will continue to be the right thing when
the issue comes up again with a libnss soname change.
There may be a separate need for a 2.0/2.1 compat package, but at least the
libnss soname change is a straightforward issue that will arise in exactly
the same way with future changes unrelated to a big shift like 2.0->2.1.