RE: [cobalt-developers] installing 550 software on a raq 3/4

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Jabbour, Danny          NYC wrote:

> >I would like to install 550 software on a raq 3/3i/4/4r, does
> >anyone have a howto.
>
> Due to differences in several things between the 550 and other cobalts
> (primarily glibc and the kernel I believe), I do not think that packages are
> cross compatible.  Your best bet is to get source RPMS and rpm install from
> those (this actually isn't all that hard).  Perhaps someone here is more
> experienced in loading 550 cobalt packages on older cobalts, but I do not
> believe this is possible.

Packages load just fine, with the exception of kernel patches, and
Brian at nuonce.net has recompiled kernel packages with SRPMS provided
by Duncan Laurie!  Many thanks to both of these guys.

Gerald
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