Re: .tgz

[Cloudmaster <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Jay Link wrote:
> > Or, for that matter, just the reqs and recs for upgrading libraries...
> 
> 1) Copy the new library to /lib (or /usr/lib, or where ever the old one
>    is)
> 
> 2) Update the symbolic link to point to the new library:
> 
>    ln -sf /lib/libx.so.x.x.x /lib/libx.so.x

If you're updating libc, you probably wanna have a statically linked ln.
That whole "remove before replace" thing isn't pretty when the thing that
needs to do the "replace" needs the thing it just "remove"d is gone.

--Danny, who hosed his slack box like that with his glibc upgrade


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