Re: GiT and CentOS 5.2

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Jul 8, 2008, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20080708183704.GA16301@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <49523.216.185.71.22.1215539200.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:46:40PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:

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> OS = CentOS-5.2
> perl = 5.8.8
> 
> I get git from the yum repository at kernel.org.  Up until the most recent
> update I had no problems.  Now I am getting these dependency errors:
> 
> Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.4 is needed by package git
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.10.0) is needed by
> package perl-Git
> Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7) is needed by package git
> Error: Missing Dependency: libexpat.so.1 is needed by package git
> Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 is needed by package git
> 
> 
> Are these dependencies actually meaningful?  By that I mean, are there
> features used in the latest release of GiT that depend upon features of
> GLIBC 2.7 that are not part of glibc-2.5?  Similarly, are there features
> of curl used in the latest git that are not present or work differently in
> curl 7.15.2?  Ditto for OpenSSL and libxpat.

This only means the rpms in the yum repository at kernel.org were built on a system more recent than yours, and that run-time dependencies (as opposed to build dependencies) require some libraries to be newer than what your system provides.

Mike