Hi Pete, On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:37:53 +1000 blind Pete <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is anybody using BOINC? http://http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ > Just for the record, the site is http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ (You had a double http:// there). > The version on their website is slightly newer than the > version in Mageia2's repository, but it complains about > a glibc problem. > > Is it sensible to try and install a different glibc? > Or to link a new number to the existing file? > Or modify boinc? > Or use the older version of boinc? > Or submit an upgrade request? (How do you do that?) > Please don't install a different glibc - there lies the path to insanity. One option would be to rebuild boinc-client from source and compile it, or to update the package. I don't know if you can use the older version of boinc effectively, because I'm nto intimately familiar with it. You can submit an upgrade request on http://bugs.mageia.org/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish > [psd@test BOINC]$ ./run_manager > ./boincmgr: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found > (required by ./boincmgr) > [psd@test BOINC]$ ll /lib64/libc.so.6 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 15 13:31 /lib64/libc.so.6 -> > libc-2.14.1.so* [psd@test BOINC]$ ll /lib64/libc-2* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1883280 Apr 28 13:23 /lib64/libc-2.14.1.so* > [psd@test BOINC]$ rpm -qf /lib64/libc-2.14.1.so > glibc-2.14.1-8.mga2 > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Apple Inc. is Evil - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/apple/ There is no IGLU Cabal! Home‐made Cabals eventually superseded the power and influence of the original IGLU Cabal, which was considered a cutting edge development at its time. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
