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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

While puzzling over the meaning of libpthread, I looked at the dates on 
the files in /lib and discovered five of them were dated May 18 and 
none of these were 2.1.3.  I then discovered /var/log/scripts and looked 
at the file there for glibcso-2.2.5 and it listed all the new symlinks 
which had been made, which were mostly to files with 2.2.5 in their names 
(to replace the links to 2.1.3 which I already remade).

Two of these five files did not have older equivalents 
(libthread_db-1.0.so and libdb2.so.3).
Three others had replaced the files from glibcso 2.1.3:
libpthread-0.9.so replaced 0.8
libdb-3.1.so replaced 2.1.3
libnss_db-2.2.so replaced 2.1.3

I used ln -sfb (to force overwrites and make backups) to remake symlinks
to the glibcso 2.1.3 equivalents.  It did make backups.

I tried as, perl, etc., and they still don't work, even if I reboot.

I did not delete any of these newer files.

I also discovered that you cannot boot with BL2 ramdisk and use installpkg 
to install packages easily to the hard drive BL2.  First, BL2 ramdisk has 
no installpkg (which is a script).  So I tried /mnt/sbin/installpkg to 
install a package and it could not find /var/log/packages and quit. 
I could possibly rewrite the script to /mnt/var/log/packages.  

While hunting for library downgrade help, I ran across the fact that mc 
can be used to look at the files inside an rpm package and copy over just 
the ones you want.  Has anyone tried this?  mc/mc-menu did not work for me 
to install a couple of rpm packages, said they were the wrong format or 
something similar.  

I still don't have a system that I can use to install, but I am learning a 
lot trying.