Hi Oliver,
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 17:58 +0200, Oliver Keeble wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Andreas Haupt wrote:
> > [root@blade30 ~]# yum install glite-WN
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: perl(SOAP::Lite) is needed by package glite-data-catalog-api-perl
> > Error: Missing Dependency: perl(SOAP::Lite) is needed by package glite-data-transfer-api-perl
> >
> > I think this will resolve correctly on SLC, doesn't it?
>
> Please use the fully natively compiled WN rather than the compat
> version, it does not have the dependency problems you raise. For
> perl(SOAP::Lite) this is available in SLC4, as you say - you can add SLC
> as a repository in such a way that it never overrides packages from your
> OS repository.
Ok, so SL4_compat from 3.0 shouldn't be used anymore?
> > DAG is really a nice repository for RHEL and its clones. But IMHO it
> > drives an incompatible release philosophy. It doesn't replace system
> > libs but you'll get mostly only the newest versions of any software
> > there which is not part of RHEL. If you depend on older versions for
> > some time, you'll loose. And as you can see, gLite doesn't work well
> > together with bleeding edge software. Otherwise it would have been
> > running on SL4 for at least 2 years... and it would already run on SL5.
>
> There is no offer to backport security fixes into older versions of
> externals - either you track the repository or you don't. Our feedback
> was that most sites would prefer to know they have a reliable source of
> updates.
I just wanted to say that package updates in DAG do not only show up
when security issues have been fixed. Very often they are put into the
repo just because a new version exists. Then hope, gLite can cope with
them.
Cheers,
Andreas
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