On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can we go via an intermediate library that would coexist with current > glibc? Something like libc6-nptl, then we do the transitional update > with the tools and other libraries moving over to libc6-nptl, then the > final piece of the upgrade is libc6 going to nptl based libc6.1 and we > remove the transitional libc6-nptl? This type of flip will have to be > done via ld.so.conf magic, but it should be doable. No, due to library-to-library dependencies you have the same problem. You would either have to rebuild *all* the libraries or continue splitting each library into two packages lib and lib-nptl. Cheers, Carlos. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html