1.6.0 RPM available for Redhat 6.2 available yet

[Linas Vepstas]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:10:34AM -0400, Paul Lussier was heard to remark:
> 
> In a message dated: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:04:53 EDT
> Bill Nottingham said:
> 
> >> Can't you upgrade glibc?
> >
> >Yes, but that may be more than what most people want to do.
> >(It shouldn't cause problems, but it's a fairly large upgrade.)
> >In general, programs compiled against glibc-2.2 *may* not work
> >correctly on glibc-2.1.
> 
> But programs compiled against glibc-2.1 *should* work with 2.2, right?

Yeah, but redhat picked a non-standard version of the compiler as well.
The way redhat dependencies work, you can't install the newer glibc
without also installing virtually the entire system.  Its pretty much an
all-or-nothing thing.  That's why they bumped the major version number.

(You can have a system that's half rh 6.1 and 6.2.  But you can't
have one that's half 6.2 and half 7.0.   Personally, after discovering
how hard it would be to upgrade my rh62 system to rh70, I upgraded to
debian instead.  So I have a half-rh62/half-debian system) 

--linas
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