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Is it not possible to just update glibc ? https://sourceware.org/glibc/sources.html https://sourceware.org/glibc/sources.html
by ekimehtor 3y ago
Is it not possible to just update glibc ?
https://sourceware.org/glibc/sources.html https://sourceware.org/glibc/sources.html
- PlutoIsAPlanet 3y agoNot on the system as you'll likely break ABI compatibility and need to recompile everything that uses glibc (basically everything), and LTS distros (e.g. CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu LTS) guarantee binary compatibility during the release so this isn't feasible.
- dTal 3y agoWould it actually break though? It's my understanding that glibc attempts to preserve backwards compatibility, such that binaries built under older versions will work under newer versions. As far as I know it's not a hard commitment the way it is for the kernel, but breakages are infrequent.