Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 22 August 2010, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:57 on Sunday 22 August 2010, > > > > cov...@ccs.covici.com did opine thusly: > > > > There is a way to downgrade for the brave. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > quickpkg glibc >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:44 on Sunday 22 August 2010, cov...@ccs.covici.com did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:57 on Sunday 22 August 2010, > > > > cov...@ccs.covici.com did opine thusly: > > > > There is a way to downgrade for the brave. >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread covici
Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:57 on Sunday 22 August 2010, > cov...@ccs.covici.com did opine thusly: > > > > There is a way to downgrade for the brave. > > > > > > > > > > > > quickpkg glibc > > > move the 2.11.? version ebuild you want to your local overlay. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:57 on Sunday 22 August 2010, cov...@ccs.covici.com did opine thusly: > > There is a way to downgrade for the brave. > > > > > > > > quickpkg glibc > > move the 2.11.? version ebuild you want to your local overlay. > > Edit it and find the check that disallows d

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread covici
Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:29 on Sunday 22 August 2010, Arttu V. did > opine thusly: > > > On 8/22/10, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged -- > > > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:29 on Sunday 22 August 2010, Arttu V. did opine thusly: > On 8/22/10, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged -- > > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however > > after doing t

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread covici
Arttu V. wrote: > On 8/22/10, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged -- > > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however > > after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to > > S_ISCHR. I tri

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread Arttu V.
On 8/22/10, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged -- > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however > after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to > S_ISCHR. I tried to downgrade glibc, but a

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged -- > amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however > after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to > S_ISCHR. I tried to downgrade glibc, but apparently t

[gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread covici
Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged -- amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to S_ISCHR. I tried to downgrade glibc, but apparently this is not supported and I am a bit stu

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:28 on Thursday 19 August 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:55:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Besides, if I don't give them some form of responsibility they will > > never become responsible. > > Unfortunately, the converse is no

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:55:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Besides, if I don't give them some form of responsibility they will > never become responsible. Unfortunately, the converse is not necessarily true :( -- Neil Bothwick We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrate

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:49 on Thursday 19 August 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:05:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > But for critical production machines? Not a flying chance in hell :-) > > Too many times I've had to sort out the carnage from idiotic j

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:05:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But for critical production machines? Not a flying chance in hell :-) > Too many times I've had to sort out the carnage from idiotic juniors > who blindly run "emerge -uND world" and walk away thinking Unix always > works like RedHat. Why

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 01:32:32 William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi Alan, a suggestion - for "mission critical" clone one of your systems > into a vm (dd), get it working, upgrade and test. > > Or clone to a chroot and do the same. > > Not quite 100% - but allows some peace of mind! Hi Bill, G

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi Alan, a suggestion - for "mission critical" clone one of your systems into a vm (dd), get it working, upgrade and test. Or clone to a chroot and do the same. Not quite 100% - but allows some peace of mind! BillK On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 17:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
Em 17-08-2010 12:34, Alan McKinnon escreveu: > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 15:21:35 Peter Ruskin wrote: >> On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:33:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? >>> >>> I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 15:21:35 Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:33:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? > > > > I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, > > and downgrading that package is decid

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread Graham Murray
I have glibc-2.12.1 running on two ~x86 systems with no problems so far. > Hi, > > Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? > > I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and > downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only comment I can find at > this

[gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only comment I can find at this early stage is flameeye's blog, and this makes me quadruple nervous: And if you s