On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:03:31AM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > I think Matt's answer was from FC3, not FC2. I checked on both, actually. FC2 has glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.44, and FC3 glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.87. I don't think there's been updates for either. I've been wrong before, though. :) > The distro CDs (disk 1 or 2) should have the required package, and in > FC2 IIRC the headers are in the kernel-source RPM which is on disk 2. There's also the separate kernel-headers (well, glibc-kernheaders) package. As the later/current name indicates, these are supposed to match the kernel your glibc was built against, not necessarily the currently running kernel. > BTW, I reread your message about the required kernel-headers-2.4-9.34 > and then checked what is in FC2 and FC1. > FC1 starts with kernel 2.4.22 > FC2 starts with kernel 2.6.5 > However, kernel-utils is 2.4-9 in both. Yeah, kernel-utils, but not kernel-headers. :) > The required package would imply you need headers for the 2.4 kernel, > but FC2 has never had a 2.4 kernel. It started with 2.6.5 kernel. Apparently, the glibc package built on FC1 or RHEL for both of them. Kinda weird, now that you mention it. :) Hmm, and the devel tree (rawhide) package is 2.4-9.1.89 .... quite odd! > I wonder what version of gcc you are installing and where you got it? > It doesn't seem likely that it is a fedora package if it requires > another package that is not provided by fedora. Stuff like this happens sometimes -- for example, some packages still require "XFree86-devel" even though that's been replaced with xorg-devel. RPM can handle this fine because the replacement packages can explicitly tell the system that the provide another package name in addition to their own. In this case, the glibc-headers package requires kernel-headers, and glibc-headers is required by glibc-devel, and glibc-devel is required by gcc. You know the famous saying: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to use RPM directly instead of using Yum." Or at least, I think that's how it goes. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 <http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon/>
