Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-26 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: On 03/19/2015 03:34 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I had been under the impression that it was likely to be safe to use 'epel' packages, so, wishing to provide feedback, I installed a new version of qtwebkit from

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-26 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: The ultimate cause of this issue was an upgrade of glib2 by RedHat in RHEL 7.1. And because the glib2 library does not use symbol versioning, rpm cannot

Re: Other linux

2015-03-26 Thread Andrew Z
Yasha, Did you ask your colleagues why they refuse to upgrade? My experience with suse goes back to the early days of fedora. The reason I looked into going suse - i was fedup with tons of fedora updates that were constantly breaking something. And I could not get updates for rh. With no

USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-26 Thread Yasha Karant
My desktop workstation (currently X86-64 SL 7) has only one 802.3 physical port. At my university, the IT gestapo will not allow the use of a local 802.3 repeater (switch or hub) but requires a valid NIC MAC address and will disconnect any changes. I have no 802.11 WNIC on my desktop

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-26 Thread Kevin K
On Mar 26, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: My desktop workstation (currently X86-64 SL 7) has only one 802.3 physical port. At my university, the IT gestapo will not allow the use of a local 802.3 repeater (switch or hub) but requires a valid NIC MAC address and

SL7.0 yum update error

2015-03-26 Thread Bill Maidment
It looks like libguestfs needs to be updated to use libkadm5srv_mit.so.9 Error: Package: 1:libguestfs-1.22.6-22.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda)    Requires: libkadm5srv_mit.so.8()(64bit)    Removing: krb5-libs-1.11.3-49.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda)    libkadm5srv_mit.so.8()(64bit)