[NTLUG:Discuss] [Fwd: Urgent for RedHat 8.0 customers: do not upgrade to glibc 2.3]

[Jim Wildman]

Is there any report of a RedHat distributed package being broken because
of this upgrade?

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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE                                jim at rossberry.com
http://www.rossberry.com

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Chris Cox wrote:

> 
> Understood... stay insecure or mega-upgrade.. they do offer a choice.
> All I'm saying is that given the money that RH has, you'd expect
> them to make the mods to the packages themselves to THEIR supported
> version rather than relying on the latest community (non RH) generated
> update/patch against a later higher risk version.  Now, I know that
> many hack RH up to the point of rpm-hell.... but I mean.. after
> you've sliced and diced it to death... what's the point?  Probably
> better off with a different dist IMHO.
> 
> For those used to living on the edge.. the mega-upgrades can be
> tolerated.. I've got time... I can recompile, tweak, debug to get
> things working again.  If not, I can always go outside the support
> matrix and start managing packages on my own, realizing that
> future upgrades from RH may no longer operate correctly.
> 
> But that's real hard to sell to corporate America right now.
> 
> 
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