[Mageia-discuss] boinc and glibc

[blind Pete]

Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Hi Pete,
> 
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:37:53 +1000
> blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is anybody using BOINC? http://http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
>> 
> 
> Just for the record, the site is http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ (You had
> a double http:// there).

Clumsy cut'n'paste?  :-(  

>> The version on their website is slightly newer than the
>> version in Mageia2's repository, but it complains about
>> a glibc problem.
>> 
>> Is it sensible to try and install a different glibc?
>> Or to link a new number to the existing file?
>> Or modify boinc?
>> Or use the older version of boinc?
>> Or submit an upgrade request?  (How do you do that?)
>> 
> 
> Please don't install a different glibc - there lies the path
> to insanity. One option would be to rebuild boinc-client
> from source and compile it, or to update the package. I don't
> know if you can use the older version of boinc effectively, because
> I'm nto intimately familiar with it.

One version is marked "pre-release" and the other is marked 
"recommended".  It is not obvious exactly what all of the changes 
are, but I assume numerous small fixes.  

> You can submit an upgrade request on http://bugs.mageia.org/ .

Have done.  https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6983

> Regards,
> 
> Shlomi Fish
> 
>> [psd at test BOINC]$ ./run_manager
>> ./boincmgr: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found
>> (required by ./boincmgr)
>> [psd at test BOINC]$ ll /lib64/libc.so.6
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 15 13:31 /lib64/libc.so.6 ->
>> libc-2.14.1.so* [psd at test BOINC]$ ll /lib64/libc-2*
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1883280 Apr 28 13:23 /lib64/libc-2.14.1.so*
>> [psd at test BOINC]$ rpm -qf /lib64/libc-2.14.1.so
>> glibc-2.14.1-8.mga2
>> 
> 
> 
> 

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