[fedora-virt] virt-preview: libguestfs requires glibc not in F14

[sean darcy]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 07:03:08PM -0400, sean darcy wrote:
>> yum upgrade
>> ...........
>> Error: Package: 1:libguestfs-1.9.14-1.fc14.x86_64 (fedora-virt-preview)
>>            Requires: glibc >= 2.13.90-4
>>            Installed: glibc-2.13-1.i686 (@updates)
>>                glibc = 2.13-1
>>            Available: glibc-2.12.90-17.i686 (fedora)
>>                glibc = 2.12.90-17
>>
>> rpm -q glibc
>> glibc-2.13-1.x86_64
>> glibc-2.13-1.i686
>
> I guess Justin this is the dependency problem you mentioned?
>
> The issue, and the reason why we have it in the F15 package, is so
> that you can't mix libguestfs built against glibc >= 2.13.90-4 with
> runtime glibc < 2.13.90-4.
>
> Since glibc won't be updated to 2.13.90 in Fedora 14 (I hope), for
> virt-preview you can just drop this extra dependency or add an
> %if ... %end around it.
>
> Rich.
>
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>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.

sean