[Slapt-get-user] Excluding glibc

Jason Woodward woodwardj at jaos.org
Sun Sep 17 20:01:27 EDT 2006


> As you can see I'm excluding ^glibc.* and so glibc-zoneinfo, glibc, glibc-i18n and
> glibc-profile will not be included. However for some reason glibc-solibs is in the
> list of packages to be updated. As far as I'm aware this was not so in the past.
> I'm using slapt-get-0.9.11e-i386-1.
> 
> Does anybody else have the same problem? Am I perhaps missing a technical detail
> that says "it works as intended"?

Yeah, here is the faq entry that explains this: 
http://software.jaos.org/BUILD/slapt-get/FAQ.html#slgFAQ9

Specifically:

"In newer versions of slapt-get, dist-upgrade automatically handles installing/upgrading
glibc-solibs, pkgtools, and sed prior to any other changes."


HTH,
jason

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Jason Woodward
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