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[Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 17:05, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> A new one: While I was doing the above upgrades, I found that on my test
> system at least, doing just 'sorcery queue; cast --queue' ends up with a
> glibc failure due to errors about symbol definition loops.  But it appears
> to only happen if glibc casts before gcc.  If I do the toolchain (in order)
> explicitly before the rest of the system, no errors (so far; it's still
> going, but glibc didn't fail this time for sure).
>
> So, this probably isn't gating, but it may mean people will have a glibc
> error using the default upgrade path if they don't have a practice of
> watching for toolchain updates and managing them separately.  They can just
> 'cast --queue' again and it should get through the second time, but that
> could be a disturbing error for people, and a waste of compile time.  Do we
> want to do anything about this?
Can't we just add a depends gcc to glibc? Or maybe a force_depends?

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