RPM Upgrade

[Matthias Andree]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> writes:

> Even if you managed to install both versions at the same time (not
> only the library but also the devel-package), it would not work. When
> checking the dependencies rpm will probably use objdump or ldd[1] on
> the resulting binary which will find the system Glibc (2.3) and add it
> as dependency to the rpm. The chroot-idea will work.

The automatic dependency generation can be switched off, so that's a
non-issue with RPMs.

> BTW, what is so bad about compiling bogofilter?

That users will complain if they don't get their convenience i586.rpm :-P

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Matthias Andree