On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> >
> > I believe an upgrade of www.iglu.org.il is in need. The reason is that the
> > new RedHat packages belong to RPM version 4.0 and cannot be installed by
> > RPM version 3.x which is present on RedHat 6.2. I tried to compile RPM 4.0
> > from source but was not successful.
>
> What about upgrading rpm to 3.05 ?
>
> I remember reading something about that from linux-il. Never tried it...
>
> Another possible solution: rebuild the rpm packages from srpms. The spec
> file may need some editing, to remove some newly-introduced macros. I can
> help a bit with such issues.
>
The problem is that rpm 3.x doesn't accept the SRPMS generated by rpm 4.x
either, so it's a chicken and egg problem.
> >
> > At the moment, mod_perl is not running because it causes some error with
> > Apache. We could encounter more problems in the future unless we upgrade.
> >
> > Of course, upgrading require Physical access to the server. Since I am
> > present in Haifa during the weekends, I can do it. Or Guy Keren can.
> >
> > Anyway, do everybody agree with this position?
>
> Also: is RH7 considered stable enough? There was a recent round of glibc
> updates recently. But I don't follow redhat that closely.
>
If RH7 is not stable enough then 6.2 is much less so. In any case, there
are updates which are also in rpm format. Naturally, the one who will do
the upgrade, should also apply the updates. But that's what we have a
network connectivity for.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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