updating glibc

[Bill Fink]

On Thu Apr 11 2002, michael baron wrote:

> 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?

Hi Michael,

Since you're already running YDL 2.0, possibly the simplest way to do
this would be to do a yup update to 2.1 (2.1 includes glibc-2.2.4-19k).
It may be as easy as doing a "yup clean yupdb", a "yup config dist"
selecting 2.1 (fuji) and your favorite mirror, and then doing a
"yup update".  You may have to manually update to the 2.1 version
of yup first.

						-Bill