On 31/08/14 10:50, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 08/30/2014 12:17 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
It's a hack ... but you could probably install a newer Fedora or SL7
user-space into a chroot and run the application from that chroot. Look at
--installroot in yum. You just need to have the proper repo files handy
which yum (outside the chroot) would use - but only when you do the first
install. Afterwards, you can use 'yum update' inside the chroot as before.
Something along the lines of
yum install --enablerepo fedora --installroot /opt/fedora-root @core
(given that you have the fedora repos handy)
When that's done, you could just do:
chroot /opt/fedora
yum localinstall $PKG
At least in theory :)
I could use Fedora if I must in the manner suggested above, but I would prefer
OpenSuSE to Fedora. The other option is to wait for SL7 to leave beta and
become production -- at which time we will routinely update all of our servers
and workstations to the highest SL production version available (that is, SL
7x to replace the SL 6x we currently use).
It can probably work as well. I just demonstrated the yum method, as yum is
used in both Fedora and EL. AFAIK, openSuSE doesn't use yum but zypper, and I
don't know how easy it will be to populate a chroot with a openSuSE root.
As long as the glibc being installed in the chroot is recent enough to
understand the running kernel, this should work fairly well.
--
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
