Re: [techtalk] Large Disk/glibc/RPM Hell

2001-05-12 Thread Gina Lanik
hiyas! On Thu, 10 May 2001 15:15:26 PDT, Kai MacTane writes: >Hi. I'm seeking a way out of RPM hell, and it looks like it involves some >rather nasty installs from source. I'll try to describe the problem >concisely, but it's a fairly big problem. hm, have you ever thought about upgrading you

Re: [techtalk] Large Disk/glibc/RPM Hell

2001-05-10 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > However, I can't upgrade glibc using rpm, because I need a higher > version of rpm. > I tried installing rpm 4.0.2 from source, but it immediately barfed > and told me I needed a higher glibc. Have you tried rpm --nodeps in one of these strategic places? The new rpm

Re: [techtalk] Large Disk/glibc/RPM Hell

2001-05-10 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 10-May-101 [techtalk] Large Disk/glibc.. by Kai [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm running rpm 3.0.6-6x. To upgrade to util-linux-2.10o or modutils-2.4.0, > I need to have glibc-2.2. My current version is 2.1.2-11. However, I can't > upgrade glibc using rpm, because I need a highe

[techtalk] Large Disk/glibc/RPM Hell

2001-05-10 Thread Kai MacTane
Hi. I'm seeking a way out of RPM hell, and it looks like it involves some rather nasty installs from source. I'll try to describe the problem concisely, but it's a fairly big problem. I have a Red Hat 6.1 box, on which I've been attempting to install an 80 GB IDE drive. As mentioned in the Lar