From: Brian Bruns (bruns@magenet.com)
Date: Mon May 17 1999 - 16:13:44 EDT
Actually, you need to recompile all the rpms because they were built with
glibc 2.1 and won't work with 2.0
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Brian Bruns
Valley Of The Mage Consulting
http://www.magenet.com/~bruns
ICQ: 8077511
On Mon, 17 May 1999 dan@mudhosts.net wrote:
> I see. Maybe I will downgrade my glibc back to glibc2. I want 6.0 since it
> has some nice features I want. I suppose I could just manually update
> those using rpm -U.
>
> On Mon, 17 May 1999, Brian Bruns wrote:
>
> > I'm not really sure. I hate it when RH does updates :P
> >
> > I remember this same thing happening when RH 5.0 came out... RH 5.1 got
> > it right and RH 5.2 made it somewhat better. I am very against RH 6.0
> > because things that worked fine with 5.1/5.2 don't work in 6.0, which is
> > mainly because of glibc 2.1. But I am putting together a dist of RH 6.0
> > which will update cleanly over 5.1/5.2 with no need to update glibc or the
> > kernel.
> >
> > Until it gets to be like 6.1, I wouldn't recommend touching 6.x.
> >
> >
> > -------------------
> > Brian Bruns
> > Valley Of The Mage Consulting
> > http://www.magenet.com/~bruns
> > ICQ: 8077511
> >
> > On Mon, 17 May 1999 dan@mudhosts.net wrote:
> >
> > > I did the full update program. I suppose I could down the system and
> > > reformat and reinstall redhat, but thats kind of a pain. I didn't just do
> > > the rpm -U (rpm list) I booted from a redhat CD and ran the CD's upgrade
> > > routine. Is this still a bad idea?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Brian Bruns wrote:
> > >
> > > > Upgrading 5.2 to 6.0 via rpms without erasing the whole system is a really
> > > > bad idea. The changes to the core setup of RH 6.0 are way to big to just
> > > > do an rpm update. Trust me, I tried, and lost a system that way. After I
> > > > did the package updates, everything cored and died.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -------------------
> > > > Brian Bruns
> > > > Valley Of The Mage Consulting
> > > > http://www.magenet.com/~bruns
> > > > ICQ: 8077511
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 17 May 1999 dan@mudhosts.net wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I just upgraded to RedHat 6 from 5.2, and now all of a sudden, RPM2HTML
> > > > > crashes on me. I ran it to parse the latest RPM files I'd added, and I got
> > > > > this output:
> > > > >
> > > > > Scanning directory /home/ftp/pub/updates for RPMs
> > > > > Created directory
> > > > > "/home/httpd/html/repository/incoming/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> > > > > Created directory
> > > > > "/home/httpd/html/repository/incoming/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> > > > > Segmentation fault
> > > > >
> > > > > I have no foggy idea what the heck happened, but it really does what it's
> > > > > saying. It worked fine until I installed 6.0
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone else had these problems?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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