Re: GiT and CentOS 5.2

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