On 08/09/2010 02:24 PM, Dan Burkland wrote:
> Machine is running 5.3 and somehow both packages got updated to libgcc-4.1.2-48.el5 when they need to be libgcc-4.1.2-44.el5. The DBAs here perform the Oracle Grid Control client install however they said it will not install it if detects an incorrect package version.
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> Thanks again,
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> Dan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hakan Koseoglu
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 1:12 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: Downgrade libgcc& gcc packages (is there a clean way)
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> On 9 August 2010 19:06, Dan Burkland<dburklan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have been tasked with "fixing" one of our CentOS boxes by somehow downgrading the libgcc and gcc packages to a specific version (Required by the Oracle Grid Control client). Normally I'd just remove and reinstall the packages however removing libgcc is no fun as I found out the hard way it breaks pretty much every package including rpm& yum. Is there an elegant way to downgrade the currently installed libgcc& gcc packages?
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> Which specific version? Can't you You get away with the compat
> packages? The rest should be compatible.
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I had a similar problem (using Fedora 13) and got the following responses:
"You can use mock
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Mock_to_test_package_builds
Rahul
[Mr Gabriel Says ...] My answer was going to be, install centos 5.x in a
VM, use virtualbox, or <insert favorite virt. Tech here>, but having
doine a quick check of mock, I believe I will also install it and use it
too! Thanks Rahul"
I followed the link and it all works. You may be able to use this
directly or perhaps
CentOS supports the same approach.
HTH
Roger Wells
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