1.6.0 RPM available for Redhat 6.2 available yet

Phillip J Shelton shelton11@dingoblue.net.au
Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:00:20 +1000


Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Linas Vepstas (linas@linas.org) said:
> > > Huh? There's nothing to prevent installing glibc-2.2 without upgrading
> > > the compiler.  You might need some compiler patches to *rebuild* glibc,
> > > though.
>
> I'm not saying it can't happen, because it probably will
> (the dependency chain that drags things in is pretty ugly); but
> it's certainly possible to just have glibc-2.2 on a previously
> glibc-2.1 system.
>
> Bill

And this I did but can now no longer upgrade anything else because rpm broke
and will not recompile.

I am going to downgrade glibc to 2.1.3 soon.