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On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:14:04AM +0200, Martin S. Weber wrote:
> Moin,
>=20
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:05:22AM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:15:16AM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > > Why is postinstall listing old share libraries? I don't think it's a=
=20
> > > good idea to remove old shared libraries.
> > > Can anyone tell me why it's a good idea?
> > > Just upgraded one machine from 4.99.19 to 4.99.24, and among others,=
=20
> > > libc.so.12.150 came up on my list...
> >=20
> > It won't remove lib<lib>.major, but removing lib<lib>.major.minor is
> > fine.
> >=20
>=20
> I'm an idiot, I know, but when I installed 4.0 beta2 on a machine
> previously running 4.99.17, I killed my libc.12.149 with=20
> postinstall obsolete and machine was borked, then... I don't
> remember what "other" libc was still there; but even the tools
> in /rescue complained (probably by calling something else - I
> couldn't use /rescue/shutdown for example [wall failed?]).

That's a different kind of issue.  Newer (static) binaries will fail
because the kernel doesn't provide the interfaces they want.  The same
goes for newer dynamic libraries:  the libc.so.12 they find, which has
been linked to the 4.0_BETA2 one by the "upgrade" process, doesn't have
the symbols it needs.

> ...which is surprising because they should come from one of
> the .tgz's
> ...whose contents should not depend on an "obsolete" lib ??

The thing is, the name lib<lib>.so.<M>.<m> is not registered anywhere.
Dynamic binaries only depend on the major number, so what libc.so.12
points to is what matters.  But then again, if the kernel doesn't have
the back-end for the newer symbols, binaries will still fail.

Downgrading is not an easy process, you have to be very careful.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

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