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Re: How to upgrade libc?



>From fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il Sun Apr 14 14:32:54 1996


>
>danielv@msil.sps.mot.com (Daniel Vainer) wrote:
>fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il (Evgeny Stambulchik)
>>  I've tryed to upgrade bugy libc-5.0.5 to libc-5.3.9. I untared bin
>>  distribution of it and run ldconfig. After this I did ldconfig -p to see what
>>  happaned and it showed me that libc.so.5 still points to libc-5.0.5 and some
>>  strange thing called dnname po
>>  What I'm doing wrong?
>>  In general - is there some good routine to upgrade slakware linux? 
>
>Yes! - and pretty reliable:
>
>1) Upgrade only things you HAVE to (what was wrong with libc-5.0.9 <- not 5 I
>   guess?)
>2) Read release-*, README*, INSTALL* files
>3) See (from the above) which packages you MUST have updated PRIOR to this one
>4) Repeat steps 2) and 3) for all such packages
>5) Think if this upgrade won't break any of your current apps ( 2) together with
>   a bit of experience & intuition can help here)
>6) Write down all installation instructions step by step on a piece of paper
>7) Make backup
>8) Relax & think once again
>9) Go ahead!
>
>Evgeny
>
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