What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?

Roland McGrath roland@frob.com
Thu Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999


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.



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