glibc - what is the stable release?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:20:29PM -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
....
>> AFAIK, they don't follow the same stable/unstable convention that the
>> kernel follows, so 2.3.1 is s'posed to be the latest stable release.
>
>ahhh...ok, thanks.  so, has anyone upgraded a box from a 2.2.x version to
>a 2.3.x version and lived to tell the tale?  is the procedure for building
>2.3.x the same as the one for 2.2.x?

IHMO, changing glibc is just asking for trouble since almost everything on
the system depends on it.  Only slightly less dangerous is updating the
Berkeley database libraries.

>> FWIW, Red Hat Linux 9 will have 2.3.1
>
>yea, i've heard the same, but i don't assume that Redhat is including what
>is deemed stable by the rest of the world  ;)

Ain't that the truth.

Bill
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