On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> > I'm using mandrake distribution since quite a time now, and I'm especially
> > happy to see the activity on the Cooker which allow to keep up to date
> > with the latest release.
> > Therefore, there's stg that I find a little puzzling : why is it that
> > every time a new release (ie MDK 8) is showing, all the RPM packages
> > suddendly requires dependencies that weren't needed with the latest
> > "official" release (MDK 7.2 in this case) ?
> Mdk 8.0 has glibc 2.2, while 7.2 has an older one. They aren't
> compatible, that's why rpm is complaining. If you want to install the
> mdk 8.0 openssl on you're 7.2 machine, then you'll also need to upgrade
> glibc, which will then force you to upgrade most other applications as
> well --> something you could consider to be a complete OS upgrade.
Isn't the new lib policy designed to fix this kind of problem, by letting
you have several incompatible versions of the same library installed at
once?
Michael
