Re: RH 5.1 and Kernel 2.2.1

Jim Bourne (jbourne@affinity-systems.ab.ca)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:30:21 -0700 (MST)


On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Sorry to add more to a non-kernel issue, but I thought I'd mention that I'm
> > getting the same problem, but not just with binaries. Whenever I boot up
> > 2.2.0 with packages upgraded from rawhide.redhat.com, I get the __bzero
> > error every time I attempt to load a module. Consequentially, I can not
> > access CD-ROMs or my ISP, since my fs's and ppp are both modules by default.
> > Any suggestions?
>
> rpm --install RPMS/i386/whatever.i386.rpm
>
> to get binaries built for glibc 2.0.7
>
> A similar procedure goes for any other RPM based dist.

Hi all,
RH 5.2 rpms will be compatible with 5.1 (for the most part) and you can use
packages pre-built from that dist version.

Packages that are not included in 5.2 needed to upgrade to 2.2.x (as per the
Changes file) are available on developer.redhat.com at Red Hat Contrib|Net
or from http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/2.2.x-upgrades/

These include:
ipchains
modutils
net-tools
procinfo and
util-linux

The util-linux package is the only one that is signifcantly different from
the original RH version. These should be back compatible with RH 5.1, but
were compiled under a relatively stock RH 5.2 system running 2.2.1
(therefore net-tools doesn't support ipv6 either).

Hope that helps all the people in need of an upgrade.

Jim

>
> Alan
>

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