glibc 2.1 -> 2.2 gotchas?

[Michel Dänzer]

"Kevin B. Hendricks" wrote:

> The other easy way to make this move is to simply upgrade to YDL 2, SuSE
> 7.1, Debian, Mandrake, etc. They are all glibc 2.2.X based and come with all
> of the other things that need to be upgraded since they are so old (Perl,
> etc).
>
> Upgrading them from glibc-2.2.1 to glibc 2.2.4 is easily done with rpm a few
> syncs and a restart.

No restart needed with Debian, the glibc upgrade will just ask if it should
restart a few services.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)    \   Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast   \        XFree86 and DRI project member

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