[CentOS] Installing el3 packages on CentOS 4

Thu Jun 1 21:59:38 UTC 2006
José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque at cox.net>

Jim Perrin wrote:

> I don't think I fully addressed the question before, so allow me to
> clarify. EL3 binaries are linked against different versions of
> libraries than are in EL4, and in some cases library names have
> changed. Glibc and kernel differences may also cause issues. If you
> want to install an EL3 package, I'd rebuild the srpm at a minimum, but
> if dag suddenly stopped building it or releasing it for a particular
> EL version, he may have a good reason for this. It may be advisable to
> ask why it was not built/released for EL4.
>
> Hope that more clearly answers the question.

It does.  Thank you very much.

Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque