updating glibc

[Stefan Jeglinski]

>I am running YDL 2.0, fairly vanilla 'developer' install, apart from a whole
>lot of molecular biology software I have compiled and installed.
>
>I would like to install a file manager (DFM), but it requires glibc>2.2.3,
>and YDL 2.0 has only glibc 2.2.1. THE QUESTION is, of course, if I am going
>to break my whole system by upgrading to a more recent version of glibc. If
>I am going to have to update the entire distro, I think I might just leave
>it.
>
>I have found instructions for updating  glibc to 2.2.4-4h, along with gcc,
>binutils and nscd, for YDL2.1 users, so this would appear to be an
>interdependent group of packages, so I could easily update those.
>
>Anyone done this, or know reasons why it is a Bad Idea? I am aware that
>there were big changes in the early days of glibc, but surely new versions
>should be backwards compatible at least a couple of changes at the third
>version decimal?

It should work more or less, I've done it on three machines now, and 
I upgraded from LinuxPPC 2kQ4, which is even older than YDL 2.0. See 
my post on doing this by hand:

<http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-user/200203/msg00030.html>



Stefan Jeglinski