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