A few days ago after syncing I upgraded glibc from v. 2.3.5-r3 to 2.3.6. I did my toolchain thang (emerge linux-headers glibc binutils gcc && emerge glibc binutils gcc X 2) followed by emerge -ep world. Everything went smoothely, and I have had absolutely no problems whatsoever. A day later sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6 was masked with the -* keyword, so I'd like to report success, without any issues. I really don't want to rebuild the machine again (well for a while at least ;-). J.K. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge =glibc-2.3.6 2.emerge the toolchain X 3 3.emerge -ep world Actual Results: A perfectly working system. Expected Results: Apparently I should have experienced problems. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.6-r0, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://ponocrates/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 bzlib crypt cups curl divx4linux dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 haskell howl idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 java jpeg junit kde lcms lestiff libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng mono motif mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pascal pcmcia pcre pdflib perl plugin png posix python qt quicktime readline real recode ruby samba sdl spell sql sqlite ssl subversion svg svga symlink tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
we move toolchain related packages into testing when we're ready to (meaning we have all the changes we want in it)
*** Bug 112936 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
