glibc upgrade from scratch

[m.w.chang]

Forgive me, but if there is one thing good about DOS (and the old 
Windows 3.x), it's this backward compatible upgrade paths.

You can really upgrade or downgrade DOS/Win3.1 without caring about the 
correlation between the kernels, the compilers and the glibc. I failed 
to see the same convinience with Window$ or Linux.

Yeah, it's the good old DOS, but your majesty and honour, everyghing was 
so freaking mutually independent and simple. That's what one should 
called a really low if not zero Total Cost of Ownership.

m.w.chang wrote:
> maybe one should upgrade glibc via Knoppix in a similar way. that surely 
> should enable a clean upgrade. but...
> 
> how could you get rpm to remove the old.glibc.rpm in an alternative 
> root, checkinstall the new one into it?
> 

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