Jim Perrin
2015-Mar-31 16:21 UTC
[CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path
On 03/31/2015 11:12 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Alfred von Campe <alfred at von-campe.com> 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. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77
Alfred von Campe
2015-Mar-31 17:43 UTC
[CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path
On Mar 31, 2015, at 12:21, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:>> Isn't this the problem that docker was invented to solve? > > > Yes, you could address this with docker quite easily, depending on the app.Perhaps, but I?m running CentOS 6.6 i686 (i.e., 32-bit), and it appears that Docker requires 64-bit. Oh well, I was getting my hopes up for a while. In the mean time, we?ve requested a CentOS 6 compatible .shared library from our vendor, and I?m keeping my fingers crossed while waiting for their reply. Alfred
Les Mikesell
2015-Mar-31 18:15 UTC
[CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Alfred von Campe <alfred at von-campe.com> wrote:> On Mar 31, 2015, at 12:21, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote: > >>> Isn't this the problem that docker was invented to solve? >> >> >> Yes, you could address this with docker quite easily, depending on the app. > > Perhaps, but I?m running CentOS 6.6 i686 (i.e., 32-bit), and it appears that > Docker requires 64-bit. Oh well, I was getting my hopes up for a while. In > the mean time, we?ve requested a CentOS 6 compatible .shared library from our > vendor, and I?m keeping my fingers crossed while waiting for their reply.What about remote exectution? You might even give it access to local files with x2go. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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