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[Fwd: Re: GiT and CentOS 5.2]

Subject: [Fwd: Re: GiT and CentOS 5.2]

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4 messages between Jul 8, 2008 and Jul 8, 2008.

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James B. Byrne· Jul 8, 2008, 18:51 UTC · lore

On Tue, July 8, 2008 14:37, Mike Hommey wrote:

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> 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.

I understand the meaning of the error messages. What I am asking is whether or not any of these dependencies is substantive. If they are then I am stuck at the immediately previous release of GiT. If not then I have the option to either build from source or force an rpm update. If I force then I can no long use yum but at least I have the applicate managed by rpm. If I build from source then I lose that as well.

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?

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Jay Soffian· Jul 8, 2008, 18:58 UTC · re: James B. Byrne · lore

Re: [Fwd: Re: GiT and CentOS 5.2]

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.

James B. Byrne· Jul 8, 2008, 19:15 UTC · re: Jay Soffian · lore

Re: [Fwd: Re: GiT and CentOS 5.2]

On Tue, July 8, 2008 14:58, Jay Soffian wrote:

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> 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.

Yes, it appears so. Having just converted our projects from subversion to git I am reluctant to beat my brains out trying to maintain yet another moving target that is, in the end, only a support tool. The most recent GiT source builds without complaint on my development system so the dependencies are purely build environment artifacts and are not substantive. This change to the rpm build platform is unfortunate for me since I now lose a very convenient update process and have to choose between rebuilding at each release or stabilizing at 1.5.6.1.

Nonetheless, I will no doubt live through this... Sigh.

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Jakub Narebski· Jul 8, 2008, 19:12 UTC · re: James B. Byrne · lore

Re: [Fwd: Re: GiT and CentOS 5.2]

"James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> writes:

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> On Tue, July 8, 2008 14:37, Mike Hommey wrote: 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I understand the meaning of the error messages.  What I am asking is
> whether or not any of these dependencies is substantive.  If they are then
> I am stuck at the immediately previous release of Git. If not then I have
> the option to either build from source or force an rpm update.  If I force
> then I can no long use yum but at least I have the applicate managed by
> rpm.  If I build from source then I lose that as well.
> 
> 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?

They are artifact of the build environment (which picks up the libraries that they are here); till 1.5.6.1 I have compiled git and used git succesfully on Fedora Core 4 based dostribution (Aurox 11.1).

I am now compiling[1] 1.5.6.2, and so far don't have any problems (now it is at building documentation; it would be nice to be able to use pre-build documentation from SRPM).

[1] $ rpmbuild --rebuild git-1.5.6.2-1.fc9.src.rpm

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