Dennis Gilmore <dennis <at> ausil.us> writes:
On Friday, April 01, 2011 07:25:09 AM Andre Robatino wrote:
> I'm looking into the possibility of generating deltaisos directly on
> alt.fp.o, which runs RHEL 5.6, rather than downloading the ISOs, creating
> the disos, then uploading them. This would make it possible to post the
> disos much sooner as my connection is 3/768 DSL and most of the time
> involved is in the download/upload. In addition, alt.fp.o has 8 cores, so
> it would be possible to use 2 of them simultaneously. (The programs I
> need, makedeltaiso and applydeltaiso, are single-threaded.)
>
> The possibilities I'm aware of are either creating static executables or
> using a chroot environment (the first seems preferable, if possible). Can
> anyone give any pointers? Thanks.
Its not at all possible, glibc in f15 requires that the host be running 2.6.32
or newer kernel, and its running 2.6.18.
I've found by just attempting to run the F14 and F15 {make,apply}deltaiso
executables that the F14 version of makedeltaiso seems to work normally, though
F14's applydeltaiso complains:
applydeltaiso_f14: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by
applydeltaiso_f14)
The F15 versions both fail due to the missing liblzma.so.5, as expected. Would
the difference between F14's
glibc-2.13-1 and F15's glibc-2.13.90-8 make F15's makedeltaiso fail even if
liblzma.so.5 was installed? Just getting that to work would save quite a bit of
time. Ideally, I'd like to find a way to make this work without any such outside
support, though.