On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 07:07:01 -0700, Net Llama! wrote: <snip> > > Kurt is definitely much more of an expert on this than I. I also > remember reading about this, but haven't yet run into it. This is just > one of those forward looking issues that i've yet to experience. There > are no backward looking issues though.
<snip> > Its impossible to tell you everything that needs to be recompiled, since > there are essentially an infinite number of possibilities. All i can > mention are the things i've run into, which are rpm, zlib, bzip2 & > binutils. Thus far, everything else has worked. > > If you can get gcc & glibc upgraded and still be able to go about your > day to day activities, then you should be out of the woods. As Kurt > mentioned, at this time there aren't really many advantages to having > the latest & greatest, other than having the latest & greatest. So if > you aren't comfortable, then don't do it. OK, thanks for all that NL. It seems so un-linux/*nix-like that even basic system components cannot be updated in place with predictable consequences .. but if that is the way things are I will have to live with it. Regards, Geoff _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
