[HACKERS] Using 7.1rc1 under RH 6.2

[Arsalan Zaidi]

Hi.

We tried the RPM under RH 6.2 and it would unpack, saying we needed this or
that or the other... A whole bunch of dependencies.

Anyway, once of us downloaded the source and compiled it and it worked...

I just want to be sure... there's no compelling reason to use RH 7.x
(basically any new distribution with newer libraries) right? Are there any
subtle problems we'd face if we continue using this setup?

Basically, the dependencies with the RPM install have made me suspicious...

Thanks in advance.

--Arsalan.


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Re: [HACKERS] Using 7.1rc1 under RH 6.2

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød]

Lamar Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Monday 21 May 2001 07:46, Arsalan Zaidi wrote:
  We tried the RPM under RH 6.2 and it would unpack, saying we needed this or
  that or the other... A whole bunch of dependencies.
 
  I just want to be sure... there's no compelling reason to use RH 7.x
  (basically any new distribution with newer libraries) right? Are there any
  subtle problems we'd face if we continue using this setup?
 
 RedHat 7.1 is a substantial upgrade for more than one reason.  Performance is 
 better, and stability (at least for me) has been just as good.

The 2.4 kernels make sure that fdatasync() works properly, which could
improve performance in certain scenarious quite a bit.

-- 
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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