Re: Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

[Jim Perrin <jperrin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/31/2015 11:12 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Alfred von Campe <alfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Tell your vendor you want a centos 6 version of the library, it's really
>>> not a huge ask, esp if you are paying them. If they say no, do a new
>>> install of centos 7 and run it on a different box. It's the only reasonable
>>> thing to do, and if you do anything else and make anyone else support it,
>>> you are a bad person.
>>
>> I’m not quite ready to move to CentOS 7 yet.  I would have to upgrade about
>> 80 desktops, a couple of dozen VMs, and a handful of servers.  That’s after
>> some extensive testing to make sure all our applications and cross compilers
>> run on CentOS 7.  I realize the dependency hell a newer version of glib would
>> cause, but I want to at least try it.
> 
> Isn't this the problem that docker was invented to solve?


Yes, you could address this with docker quite easily, depending on the app.

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