Am Sonntag, den 02.08.2009, 12:38 +0200 schrieb Yury V. Zaytsev:
> On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 12:27 +0200, Christoph Maser wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 02.08.2009, 04:50 +0200 schrieb Bart Schaefer:
> > > Resolving Dependencies
> > > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > > ---> Package rar.i386 0:3.8.0-1.el4.rf set to be updated
> > > --> Running transaction check
> > > --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) for package: rar
> > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > > Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by package rar
> > >
> >
> > The problem is that this package is not compiled but simply unpacks a
> > binary and stuffs it into an RPM. The binary provided needs GLIBC_2.4
> > and will not work on CentOS 4.
>
> Is it possible to provide older rar packages for <= EL4?

Older packages are available (see http://packages.sw.be/rar/). It's just
that this problem was not detected. Once the new el4 rpms are removed
and metadata is updated everything will be fine again. In the meatime
"yum install rar-3.5.1" will do the trick.

Chris


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