THanks. I have asked this very question---about which I would think there would
be much interest given the glibc stuff---and you were the first person to give
me any answer. I guess I should just wait for 6.0. Will there be a
standard/easy, or at least straight-forward, upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0?
chris
On 29-Jan-99 Lenz Grimmer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Martin wrote:
>
>> Can anyone either confirm or deny with certainty that installing the
>> opatch.rpm located at
>>
>> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/S.u.S.E.-5.3/a1/opatch.rpm
>>
>> gives one full glibc support? Is this basically the same
>> "upgrade/addition" that would come if I installed 6.0? If not, why
>> not, and should I then wait for 6.0?
>
> No, it is not the same. This package was mainly intended for people who
> wish to run Oracle on 5.3. It contains the glibc2 libraries that Red Hat
> uses. If you apply this package to 5.3, you may run into trouble when
> upgrading to 6.0.
>
> Bye,
> LenZ
>
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