Fwd: virt-preview: libguestfs requires glibc not in F14

[sean darcy]

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From: sean darcy <seandarcy2(a)gmail.com&gt;
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" <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt;


On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; 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