---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sean darcy <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] virt-preview: libguestfs requires glibc not in F14 To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <[email protected]>
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 07:19:21PM -0400, sean darcy wrote: >> From the spec file: >> >> # Because many previously unreadable binaries have been made readable >> # (because of RHBZ#646469) they will be included in the hostfiles >> # list, which means that this libguestfs won't work with versions of >> # glibc built before the change. >> Requires: glibc >= 2.13.90-4 >> >> This implies that even if I build it with glibc-2.13.0, it still won't work. > > Maybe the comment is badly worded, but the problem is not that you > can't build against particular glibc. It is that if you build with > glibc < 2.13.90-4 then you must install with glibc < 2.13.90-4, and > conversely if you build with glibc >= 2.13.90-4 then you must install > with glibc >= 2.13.90-4. There is no way to express this using RPM > dependencies. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any > software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. > http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ > Gotcha. OK, I'll get the src.rpm, build it against the F14 glibc, and, hopefully, Bob's your uncle. Not that I know anything about the Fedora/Red Hat infrastructure, if you're doing a koji F14 build, wouldn't it be built against F14 glibc? Thanks, Sean _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
