Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Pete, > > On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:37:53 +1000 > blind Pete <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is anybody using BOINC? http://http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ >> > > Just for the record, the site is http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ (You had > a double http:// there).
Clumsy cut'n'paste? :-( >> The version on their website is slightly newer than the >> version in Mageia2's repository, but it complains about >> a glibc problem. >> >> Is it sensible to try and install a different glibc? >> Or to link a new number to the existing file? >> Or modify boinc? >> Or use the older version of boinc? >> Or submit an upgrade request? (How do you do that?) >> > > Please don't install a different glibc - there lies the path > to insanity. One option would be to rebuild boinc-client > from source and compile it, or to update the package. I don't > know if you can use the older version of boinc effectively, because > I'm nto intimately familiar with it. One version is marked "pre-release" and the other is marked "recommended". It is not obvious exactly what all of the changes are, but I assume numerous small fixes. > You can submit an upgrade request on http://bugs.mageia.org/ . Have done. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6983 > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > >> [psd@test BOINC]$ ./run_manager >> ./boincmgr: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found >> (required by ./boincmgr) >> [psd@test BOINC]$ ll /lib64/libc.so.6 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 15 13:31 /lib64/libc.so.6 -> >> libc-2.14.1.so* [psd@test BOINC]$ ll /lib64/libc-2* >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1883280 Apr 28 13:23 /lib64/libc-2.14.1.so* >> [psd@test BOINC]$ rpm -qf /lib64/libc-2.14.1.so >> glibc-2.14.1-8.mga2 >> > > > -- blind Pete Sig goes here...
