seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:48 +0800, wang9736 wrote:hi all i use redhat linux 7.3 ,and want to upgrade my glibc from 2.2.5 to2.3.6. my yum.conf is belowdose it means website above dosenot supply any software i need ? how should i do? by the way i have a Fedora 7 DVD iso disk,how can i upgrade my glibcto the newest on the DVD disk?the high version will be compatible with my kernel?Short version: the version of red hat linux you have installed is very, very old and the best way to upgrade it is to reinstall your system to a newer version. Use the fedora7 dvd you have to install the whole distribution.
Slightly longer: glibc is the building blocks that 1202 packages on my Fedora 7 installation rely upon. You would end up upgrading everything anyway, so you might as well install the current release if your hardware can support it.
on the existing system:
rpm -qa --queryformat="%{name} " > packagelistold.txt
backup the /etc /home /var {dbs etc}
on the new install:
do a minimal install {uncheck all packages and groups except yum - this
leaves a bootable os}.
yum install `cat packagelistold.txt` I have found in the past that:- the packages line generated might be too long and needs to be split into shorter paths. - some packages change names, and would have to be removed from the packagelistold.txt file.
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