On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:09:22AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Mike Frysinger<vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > i think the question was one about packaging rather than general use ? if you > > build a package against a newer glibc version but it only uses older symbols, > > then in theory it should work fine with older glibc versions. if the symbol > > changes between versions, then it should have corresponding symbol version > > changes as well (which will automatically be recorded in the binary). > > Yes, the question is specifically about packaging. > > If the answer is "Debian does not prevent you from downgrading glibc, > even if you have new packages built against the new glibc", then I > accept that. > With the correct shlibs and symbol files, all packages built against the new glibc will depends on libc6 (>= 2.10). This way it won't be possible to downgrade the libc6 packages is packages compiled against the new glibc are installed. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.aurel32.net -- 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
