dependeny issues.... upgrading apps

[nigel henry]

Hi Bruce. You'd probably be better off on the Redhat Fedora forum or mailing 
list as Fedora Legacy is dealing with FC1 and earlier. All the same, 
personally I don't think you're going to have much success with this one. 
I've put a RH9 app on FC1 and its worked. A RH8 one on FC2! Well you dont 
want to know about that. I think the problem is going to be that the FC3 
kernel has been presented to the app developers, and they've taken advantage 
of it's advanced capabilities, therefore in your case you've got mysql 
offered to you with advanced capabilities. Putting the dependencies to one 
side, whether the FC3 version of mysql is going to play with the FC2 kernel 
is a bit hit and miss. Bringing the dependencies into the scenario you could 
find yourself in some sort of dependency chain reaction, with more and more 
dependencies needing to be satisfied. If you desperately need the added 
funtionality of mysql as provided with FC3, your best bet in my honest 
opinion is to upgrade the OS to FC3. I know there are some issues with FC3 
with music software apps, as I participate in the planetccrma list. But 
probably most of the run of the mill stuff works perfectly well. Let me know 
which way you decide to go. Nigel. 





On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 7:23 pm, bruce wrote:
> hi...
>
> i'm looking to install/upgrade mysql (FC2->FC3) on a FC2 system. (i need
> the additional functionality and thought i'd try to use the rpms that were
> created for FC3.)
>
> my question concerns the dependency issues that i get when i try to install
> thngs like the kerebos libs. if i write over these libs with an updated
> version, will other apps complain??
>
> how can i go about doing an upgrade of an app, without having to upgrade
> the entire OS??
>
> thanks
>
> bruce
>
>
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