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Re: upgrade problem
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> >>>>> Frederic Lepied writes:
>
> > What I plan to do for Mandrake is keep the libnss from old glibc until
> > the reboot. For that I have to change the soname of the libnss of the
> > new glibc to avoid name clashes. WDYT ?
>
> If you like to have a distribution that's incompatible to the rest of
> the world - go ahead. But don't expect any support from the glibc
> developers for this and for the problems that will arise.
>
It is just an idea but I don't see why it can break things: no application
as far as know link directly with the dynamic libnss*. So why is it a
problem to call the soname libnss*.so.2.2 instead of libnss*.so.2 ?
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Fred - May the source be with you