Re: [cobalt-developers] OS-discussion

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Lucas wrote:

> I have seen next to nothing that has not worked on a system that has not
> been modified.  I have only had one problem ever with an update and that
> was OS2.  It made a change to a man and I got an error from logcheck.  None
> otherwise.  I have added ipchains, logcheck, portsentry, ssh.   I have not
> otherwise been in there modifying the system.  About the only change made
> manually was for the parsing of files.  I have basically stayed out of the
> conf files many people live in.  So, I disagree with the packages not
> working and breaking other things.  They do have a problem when YOU modify
> other things yes.

They've currently got a problem with the glibc update.  It's causing
major memory leaks.  They're working on a fix but it's not ready yet and
a lot of people have already installed this update.  It's still on the
website with no warnings.

Jeff
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