Upgrading glibc

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004, Georg E. Paulusberger wrote:
>I started with a SuSE 8.1 distribution which has glibc-2.2.5 on it.
>I use gcc-3.2 and make-3.79.
>I successfully compiled glibc-2.3.2.

Updating glibc is a very good way of rendering your system unusable as it's
central to pretty much everything on it.

It would be significantly safer to do in in-place upgrade to SuSE 9.0 which
includes glibc-2.3.2 than try updating glibc.  I've done quite a few
successful in-place SuSE upgrades, and one where the system wouldn't boot
when I was done (e.g. do good, verified, backups before trying this at
home).

Bill
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