upgrade problem

[Frederic Lepied]

Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

> >>>>> Frederic Lepied writes:
> 
>  > What I plan to do for Mandrake is keep the libnss from old glibc until
>  > the reboot. For that I have to change the soname of the libnss of the
>  > new glibc to avoid name clashes. WDYT ?
> 
> If you like to have a distribution that's incompatible to the rest of
> the world - go ahead.  But don't expect any support from the glibc
> developers for this and for the problems that will arise.
> 

It is just an idea but I don't see why it can break things: no application
as far as know link directly with the dynamic libnss*. So why is it a
problem to call the soname libnss*.so.2.2 instead of libnss*.so.2 ?
-- 
Fred - May the source be with you