From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:58:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: GiT and CentOS 5.2]
Message-ID: <76718490807081158v5acb6e6co670597d5e08db6c1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <50493.216.185.71.22.1215543081.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:51 PM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
> So, my question still remains: are these dependencies only artifacts of
> the build environment or do they supply actual features that the latest
> release of GiT depends upon and which are not available in the earlier
> version of the software?

You could of course answer this yourself. Download the latest RPM, rpm
--nodeps or rpm2cpio it and see if it works.

But from the looks of it, the git binary links against libraries not
on your system and it will not work.

j.