Re: Why Gnome RPMS need to work with RH 5.2

["Hall" <dhs erinet com>]

>From my experience, the RPM packages available from either ftp.gnome.org or
it's mirrors do *not* require Starbuck. I'm using RedHat v5.1 with
relatively no problems...

If you got your gnome packages from RedHat's Starbuck ftp site, yes, those
do require glibc2.1. Then again, that site is not there so that you can grab
certain packages. It's intended that you grab literally *everything* -- as
in an entire new installation or upgrade.

Hall

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Kidd <eric.kidd@pobox.com>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 4:35 AM
Subject: Why Gnome RPMS need to work with RH 5.2


> 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  1) The RPMS are out of date.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).