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Upgrade strategy glibc-2.1/2/n
- To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
- Subject: Upgrade strategy glibc-2.1/2/n
- From: Bernd Rinn <bernd at hamilton1 dot physik dot uni-konstanz dot de>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:04:22 +0100
- Reply-To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
Hi,
I have some rather general question to the experts concerning upgrades
from one version of glibc to another:
1.) Is glibc-2.x with x>1 expected to be downward compatible with
glibc-2.1?
2.) Why did you decide against introducing the major-number of a
glibc-version into the name of the shared library
(e.g. libc.so.6.1 instead of libc.so.6), as it has been done with
the old linux-libc?
3.) Which method would you suggest to use software-packages in
parallel, that have been dynamically linked against different
versions of glibc? (We would like to be able to perform a 'package
by package' upgrade over a longer period of time instead of beeing
forced to recompile all packages at once.)
Regards and thank you in advance for your help,
Bernd
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Bernd Rinn
Fakultaet fuer Physik
Universitaet Konstanz
Tel. 07531/88-3812,
e-mail: Bernd.Rinn@uni-konstanz.de
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