CentOS - Mar 2015 - 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.

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Jim Perrin
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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

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.

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   Les Mikesell
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