Paul <lists@bulldoghome.com> wrote:
The final straw with Ark Linux - An upgrade for libc6 was made available which was duly installed.... However, the base system did not have a static shell, so the post install scripts failed to run leaving the system in an unrecoverable state.
Interesting. I've noticed other distributions having libc-upgrade pain and I've rescued one system using sash, a static shell, after some nice intruder tried to patch its libc. I think a libc upgrade may have been the final killer for my Gentoo test system a few years back, but my memory isn't great... How do the older distributions handle libc upgrades? Is a static shell the only way around that or just the easiest? If GCC depends on glibc, how can compiled distributions upgrade? Thanks for any more info, -- MJ Ray - see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html North End, Lynn, Norfolk, England Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request