On Tuesday 25 March 2003 09:02 pm, Binand Raj S. wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:56:27PM +0530, Vinu Moses wrote: > > 1. When redhat releases a new major version, there is usually > > binary incompatibility or major changes. Does anyone know if this > > is the case with an upgrade from 8.0 to 9.0? > 1. How can anyone say, considering that people will get to see 9.0 > only after 31/3 ??
Found part of the answer to my own question -- According to the Phoebe list (https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list), the major version number was bumped up because NPTL support was added and all packages in the distro were recompiled to take advantage of this. And this apparently breaks some older packages. I'm still running 7.3 with updates on most of our servers, and was toying with the idea of trying 8.0 on some of the production boxes here as it was starting to stabilise. But now there's going to be 9.0 and not 8.1, and I'm not so sure if I'll upgrade any of the servers to 8.0 in a hurry. > 2. On a properly maintained RedHat system, there never is a binary > incompatibility between major versions. They usually have -compat > packages which handle potential incompatibilities. Agreed, compat packages are provided for the major stuff like X, Qt, etc. But the 6.x and 7.x distros also provided the following compat-* packages: compat-glibc, compat-egcs, compat-egcs, compat-libstdc++, and compat-egcs-c++ which allowed compilation of packages (like oracle 8i) that would only compile with a particular version of glibc/gcc seen in an older version of the distro. I don't recall seeing similar compat-* packages in 8.0. Regards, Vinu. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
