[Slapt-get-user] Excluding glibc

[Per Börjesson]

Jason Woodward wrote:
>> 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."

You know, I did read the FAQ both forwards and backwards some time ago, so I
didn't feel the need to recheck on this question. How wrong I was...

> 
> 
> HTH,

Definitely, thanks!

> jason

Regards
Per