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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > pkg /hd/tgz/glibc-solibs-2.2.5-i368-2.tgz  (from Slackware 8.1)
> >
> > It installed about 1.7 MB of files in /lib of BL3
>
> According to the package info, the uncompressed files
> occupy 3.2 MB.

Maybe the others are man or doc files?
Could I just have copied over the one libc file instead of the package?

> > and I now have both libc5 and libc6
> >
> > libc.so.5 -> libc.so.5.4.44 (BL3 library)
> > libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.5.so (SW81 library)
>
> > I was able to dial with eznet (eznet up 0).
> >
> > This lynx would not work online with BL1 but it
> > works now that I have the SW81 glibc2 installed.
>
> I'm glad to hear that it is so easy to upgrade BL3
> to glibc2.  Although glibc2 is a much larger library,
> it will significantly increase the number of binaries
> that can be run on BL3.
>
> > This is the most useful 1.7MB 'add-on' I can imagine.
>
> Major library upgrades are safer on BL3 because it has
> a static foundation.  Even if the upgrade fouls an important
> library, the BL3 shell (busybox) and the editor will still
> work.  That gives you the ability to fix things on the fly.

Also the glibc2 upgrades do not seem to affect the libc5 files, like they 
do if you upgrade from an older to a newer glibc2.
> Cheers,
> Steven