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Re: ...but now

To: Cristian Gafton <gafton at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: ...but now
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 06 Jan 2001 18:37:18 -0800
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101062122500.14215-100000@alien.devel.redhat.com>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> writes:

> That is close to impossible too. Unless you want to give up the ability to
> safely upgrade your glibc package using rpm

You are thinking far too limited.  It is not necessary to have rpm in
all its "glory" running when doing the upgrade.  The complicated
things are frontend matters, retrieving files, getting user info etc.
The installation process itself can be completely separate.  Put it in
another process.

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- Re: ...but now
  - From: Cristian Gafton

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