1.6.0 RPM available for Redhat 6.2 available yet
Paul Lussier
pll@mclinux.com
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:33:05 -0400
In a message dated: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:00:20 +1000
Phillip J Shelton said:
>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.
I gave up trying to install gc-1.6 on my RH6.0 laptop, and upgraded
my laptop to Debian instead. This fixed all the problems I had with
rpm :)
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