GiT and CentOS 5.2

OS = CentOS-5.2
perl = 5.8.8

I get git from the yum repository at kernel.org.  Up until the most recent
update I had no problems.  Now I am getting these dependency errors:

Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.4 is needed by package git
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.10.0) is needed by
package perl-Git
Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7) is needed by package git
Error: Missing Dependency: libexpat.so.1 is needed by package git
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 is needed by package git


Are these dependencies actually meaningful?  By that I mean, are there
features used in the latest release of GiT that depend upon features of
GLIBC 2.7 that are not part of glibc-2.5?  Similarly, are there features
of curl used in the latest git that are not present or work differently in
curl 7.15.2?  Ditto for OpenSSL and libxpat.

I would like to stay current with git but I cannot if these dependencies
are actually required.

Regards,


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On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:46:40PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:

OS = CentOS-5.2
perl = 5.8.8

I get git from the yum repository at kernel.org.  Up until the most recent
update I had no problems.  Now I am getting these dependency errors:

Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.4 is needed by package git
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.10.0) is needed by
package perl-Git
Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7) is needed by package git
Error: Missing Dependency: libexpat.so.1 is needed by package git
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 is needed by package git


Are these dependencies actually meaningful?  By that I mean, are there
features used in the latest release of GiT that depend upon features of
GLIBC 2.7 that are not part of glibc-2.5?  Similarly, are there features
of curl used in the latest git that are not present or work differently in
curl 7.15.2?  Ditto for OpenSSL and libxpat.

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.

Mike

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:46 PM, James B. Byrne [off-list ref] wrote:

OS = CentOS-5.2
perl = 5.8.8

I get git from the yum repository at kernel.org.  Up until the most recent
update I had no problems.  Now I am getting these dependency errors:

Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.4 is needed by package git
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.10.0) is needed by
package perl-Git
Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7) is needed by package git
Error: Missing Dependency: libexpat.so.1 is needed by package git
Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.7 is needed by package git


Are these dependencies actually meaningful?  By that I mean, are there
features used in the latest release of GiT that depend upon features of
GLIBC 2.7 that are not part of glibc-2.5?  Similarly, are there features
of curl used in the latest git that are not present or work differently in
curl 7.15.2?  Ditto for OpenSSL and libxpat.

I would like to stay current with git but I cannot if these dependencies
are actually required.

Junio switched to FC9 for building the git RPMs on kernel.org recently.

Probably the best thing to do if you want a CentOS 5.x RPM is to grab
the source tgz and build the RPM yourself. :-(

There are quite a few build-time dependencies, but those are easy to
take care of with yum.

j.

Hi all,

Just use the EPEL packages:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?action=show&redirect=Repositories

Maybe not alwaya the newest version, but it works.

David

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:25 AM, David Voit [off-list ref] wrote:

Just use the EPEL packages:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?action=show&redirect=Repositories

Maybe not alwaya the newest version, but it works.

Here's a better link for EPEL information:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Jeff