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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: DANGER Fedora
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-04-25 6:23:10
Message-ID: 408B594E.2080306 () acm ! org
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Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Saturday 24 April 2004 14:19, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>There have been various reports of problems with Fedora.
>>
>>I have found a possible explanation.  Some of the Fedora packages which I
>>just installed require GLibc-2.3.3.  There is one slight problem, that
>>version of GLibc has not been released yet.  So, unless you have the Fedora
>>GLibc packages installed those are not going to work.
> 
> 
> Sounds like a Fedora packaging issue, why do you think this is relevant on 
> kde-devel?

I CC this list when I run into problems which I can't solve which I think 
could be addressed by developers with more knowledge of the actual code.

The only packages that KDE is providing for RedHat are Fedora packages. 
There have been various postings on the two support lists from people 
trying to install them on RedHat-9.

I would again suggest that KDE offer the standard unofficial RedHat-9 
packages from:

ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/pub/apt/kde-redhat/9/RPMS.testing

since these are actually designed for RedHat-9

People have also been having problems building KDE from source on Fedora. 
One poster that was also posted to this list had a specific (and very 
strange) problem with GLibc.  I think that it is probably the Fedora GLibc, 
not his linker that is broken.

There have been a sizable number of Fedora related problems posted to the 
two support lists lately.  Any assistance which any developer could provide 
for either of these issues would be appreciated.

Also, note that the three RPMs which I removed from my system (I downgraded 
to RedHat 9):

	groff-1.18.1-29.i386.rpm
	mount-2.11y-29.i386.rpm
	procinfo-18-9.i386.rpm

There is also the possible problem that it is the GLibc itself that Fedora 
is using.  I have GLibc 2.3.2 built from source so I have no way to try to 
reproduce the problem.	

In any case, there are a sizable number of Fedora related problems and I 
could use some help.

--
JRT
 
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