A server that I used to build binaries for libc 2.3.2+
crashed, so I need to downgrade another of my Slackware
servers from 2.3.4 -> 2.3.2

Any recommendations, I was planning to do a
telinit 1
installpkg glibc-2.3.2-i486-6
installpkg glibc-solibs-2.3.2-i486-6
removepkg glibc-2.3.4-i486-1
removepkg glibc-solibs-2.3.4-i486-1

not sure if that would cause any problems,
has anybody done a downgrade?

thanks
TonyB

Oh yes, there are no libc 2.3.4 applications
installed in this server, since it was upgraded to 2.3.4, so it will
all still work with after the 2.3.2 downgrade.

On Fri, 27 May 2005 18:49:43 -0700, TonyB wrote:

> A server that I used to build binaries for libc 2.3.2+
> crashed, so I need to downgrade another of my Slackware
> servers from 2.3.4 -> 2.3.2
>
> Any recommendations, I was planning to do a
> telinit 1
> installpkg glibc-2.3.2-i486-6
> installpkg glibc-solibs-2.3.2-i486-6
> removepkg glibc-2.3.4-i486-1
> removepkg glibc-solibs-2.3.4-i486-1

telinit 1
upgradepkg glibc-solibs-2.3.2-i486-6.tgz
upgradepkg glibc-2.3.2-i486-6.tgz

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Well that did not exactly work.
Upgradepkg displayed as if it was doing the job but:

it did copy the old 2.3.2 package to /lib correctly
seems like doinst.sh did not run correctly
it did not remove the 2.3.4 files & links or do new 2.3.2 symlinks
it removed 2.3.4 from /var/log/packages and wrote the 2.3.2

so, upgradepkg failed to upgrade correctly to a previous version.

Had to fix the mess by hand, will upgrade to pkgtools v10.1 and see
if that does a better job.

On 2 Jun 2005 16:21:26 -0700, "TonyB" <comxoft@yahoo.com> wrote:
> so, upgradepkg failed to upgrade correctly to a previous version.
>
> Had to fix the mess by hand, will upgrade to pkgtools v10.1 and see
> if that does a better job.

Negative info, but I blew away OS playing with glibc --> reinstalled.

Boot install CD, tar the config info elsewhere, NFS install, bring back
some configs, only took an hour or so. Why I like slackware, hard to
break, easy to fix. I broke it on purpose, curiosity. Segfault BOOM!

--Grant.