From: Jay Soffian Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:51:17 GMT Subject: Re: GiT and CentOS 5.2 Message-ID: <76718490807081151w7c06bfb5kd0ddfe8e2729dbb5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49523.216.185.71.22.1215539200.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:46 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: > 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. > > I would like to stay current with git but I cannot if these dependencies > are actually required. Junio switched to FC9 for building the git RPMs on kernel.org recently. Probably the best thing to do if you want a CentOS 5.x RPM is to grab the source tgz and build the RPM yourself. :-( There are quite a few build-time dependencies, but those are easy to take care of with yum. j.