RE: Why Gnome RPMS need to work with RH 5.2

[jason whizzird net]

i've been using gnome rpms on my RH5.2 system since 0.98. and have never had a
serious problem with anything. i'm running the latest from the wgn.net mirror.
before blaming gnome, make sure it's not something specific to you.

On 06-Apr-99 Eric Kidd typed:
> [My apologies to users of non-RH distributions. You can skip this message,
> because you aren't affected by these problems. If you wish, you can gloat.]
> 
> It's pretty clear by now that the latest Gnome RPMS don't work well with
> Red Hat Linux 5.2. There seem to be two real problems:
> 
>  1) The RPMS are out of date.
>  2) The RPMS are linked against glibc2.1, which is part of RH 5.9,
>     not RH 5.2 (the current stable version).
> 
> An obvious fix for (2) would be upgrading to the glibc2.1 packages from
> Starbuck. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like software compiled for
> glibc2.1 works well with glibc2.0.
> 
> Some of us *need* to stick with glibc2.0. In my case, I prepare binaries
> and RPMS for a couple of projects, and need to test against the shipping
> version of RH. Other users may not want to upgrade their systems to 5.9.
> 
> Now, the good folks at RHAD labs are presumably aware of this problem by
> now. I can only assume that either (1) they're really short on time or (2)
> they don't care whether RH 5.2 users have a good experience with Gnome, and
> officially recommend that everyone upgrade to Starbuck first.
> 
> So, is there anybody else out there who can't upgrade to RH 5.9 (or switch
> to Debian), but still wants a working Gnome? Is there anybody who wishes
> that the RPMS weren't quite so out-of-date?
> 
> If you fall into these categories--and you know how to make RPM packages--
> would you be interested in helping to build an alternative set of Gnome
> RPMS? If so, contact me via private e-mail.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
> 
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