Re: latest i386 cmd_rpms and RedHat 7.3

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:51:47AM -0800, Christian Rice wrote:
> Pardon me if this has been dealt with previously--
> 
> The i386 xfs progs seem to require a newer glibc, like that available on 
> RedHat 8?

Yes.

> error: failed dependencies:
>          libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)   is needed by attr-2.1.1-0
>          libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)   is needed by xfsdump-2.2.4-0
>          libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)   is needed by xfsprogs-2.3.6-0
> 
> Should I be updating my hundreds of machines to get this (not interested 
> at this point due to production demands), or are my current versions 
> considered nominally good for use with 2.4.20 and latest cvs snapshot 
> kernel patches?  Currently using:
> 
> attr-2.0.11-0.i386.rpm
> xfsdump-2.2.1-0.i386.rpm
> xfsprogs-2.3.3-0.i386.rpm

They should be fine.  ALternatively you can just rebuild the .src.rpms
on older machines (at least any Red Hat 7.x should do it)