... after an upgrade the system becomes unusable, as has been observed for glibc-solibs, cf. https://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=7336 In one of the ChangeLogs ...

... running gslapt or spi or slapt-get: Download the new most important glibc-* packages for your architecture (32-bit or 64-bit) Install them with ... solibs-2.23-x86_64-3_slack14.2.txz su # to become root upgradepkg glibc-2.23-x86_64-3_slack14.2.txz ...

This problem comes up only with glibc-solibs, which is not installed by default in Salix (and which is kind of a useless package in the first ...

No problem with Salix, at least so far. We do not have the troublesome glibc-solibs package installed by default.

Hello, In Salix OS it is safe to update glibc-* as the wiki indicates, https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_upgrade_Salix_14.1_to_14.2 ... [inst=no]: glibc-profile (GNU C libraries with profiling support) glibc-solibs-2.23-i586-1 [inst=no]: glibc-solibs (shared GNU C libraries) glibc-solibs-2.23-i586-2_slack14.2 ...

mimosa wrote:Is this something that should concern Salix users at all?

Maybe not currently with a stock Salix installation, but as Salix ships spkg and uses it in as back-end for slapt-get this bug *could* hurt Salix, I think.

I will let gapan (who is investigating) confirm or infirm.

Is this something that should concern Salix users at all?

... their system. This is very serious bug of spkg to have an unbootable system. upgradepkg first does a pre-installation and then remove the old glibc package. I do not know what spkg does. Edit: I rebuild slapt-get without the patch of spkg to use native installpkg/upgradedpkg/ from slackware. ...

The packages glibc-* have been upgraded For some reason spkg (used as backend for spi and slapt-get in ... wget http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/glibc-solibs-2.23-x86_64-2_slack14.2.txz su # to become root upgradepkg glibc-2.23-x86_64-2_slack14.2.txz ...

... Reading Package Lists...Done The following packages have been EXCLUDED: glibc glibc-i18n glibc-profile glibc-solibs glibc-zoneinfo hplip The following packages will be upgraded: gcc gcc-g++ gcc-gfortran ...