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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.
>
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>

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
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