Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 22, 2007 20:07 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by k8to
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

> But rpm's approach to file updates (used to) prevent the update of base libraries from being achievable on running systems.

Going back to something like Red Hat Linux 7.2, this worked just fine. Upgraded glibc (remotely) many times. I honestly cannot remember before that...