RPM install

[Brian Densmore]

Yes,

 now I remember. I feared that. So what would be needed here then is some
installer that knows that and installs the library with alternate links,
backs up the old links and old library to a "standard" location in case we
want to do an undelete, right? This of course ass/u/me/s that the new
library routines are backwards compatible, otherwise there would be no
solution but to do a total upgrade. Anyone working on such an installer?
This is of course cross-distro (even debian is affected right). Might be a
good project.

Thanks,
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Hammitt, Tony [mailto:tony.hammitt at rstover.com]
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 9:23 AM
To: Brian Densmore
Subject: RE: RPM install

Can't post to the list from this account, but anyways...

glibc is the C system libraries package.  Things like file, terminal,
network, etc. handling routines.  The thing just above the kernel that
handles letting user processes talk to the hardware and each other.
All languages like Perl and C++ use the C library, too.

As libraries go, they're the most important ones on the system, bar none.

So, it's probably going to be much easier to upgrade the whole system
than try to upgrade this on any RPM-based system.  Upgrading components
of the C library on commercial unixes like AIX involves setting up a
whole lot of links to the new library while keeping the old links to
the old library, so everything will work and you can back-out an upgrade.

Linux needs that, badly.

Regards,

Tony Hammitt

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com]
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 8:55 AM
To: 'Rohde, Drew'; 'kclug at kclug.org'
Subject: RE: RPM install

This seems to be a problem with the glibc library. Does anyone know of any
bug reports on this? Or is this Linux infinite loop, you can't install XYZ
until you upgrade glibc, but you can't upgrade glibc without uninstalling
everything else. Is this some core library? If it is then, some serious work
needs to be done on Linux to allow upgrading glibc without trashing the
system.
What exactly is glibc anyway?

Anyone, want to field this one?

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Rohde, Drew [mailto:drohde01 at sprintspectrum.com]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 7:29 AM
To: 'kclug at kclug.org'
Subject: RE: RPM install

I had the same exact same problem when trying to install a blackjack card
game several months ago.
Never really did get a resolution to it.
Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert D Oden [mailto:roden at dbasetek.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 8:49 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RPM install

I am trying to install the perl-5.6.0-9.rpm and I have a dependency
error with libc.so.6. There is a symbolic link libc.so.6 pointing to
libc-2.1.3.so in the /lib directory.

I am running RedHat 6.2. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Doug