Re: Holding off on FC4

Damien Hull wrote:
> Don't know if anyone has upgraded to FC4 yet but I'm going to wait a
> while. I did a test install of FC4 as a workstation and all seemed well.
> That was until I tried to compile MySQL. They changed a few libraries
> and MySQL wouldn't compile.
>
> The libraries and other changes in FC4 could cause problems on my
> production systems. I'm sure there are fixes/workarounds for them but I
> don't have the time to figure them out. Things work just fine under FC3.
>
> I'm running into a few problems with both FC3 and FC4. If I do an
> automated install with a kikstart file DNS and DHCP don't work. I have
> to uninstall and reinstall them. After that they work fine.
>
> I've also had problems with Apache. I tried to change the root directory
> and had no luck. Apache wouldn't start if I changed the default web
> directory. My fix was to compile Apache from scratch which is what I
> normally do.
>
> As soon as I can I'll join the Fedora mailing list and hammer them with
> questions.
>
> Oh, I did switch the server I'll be bringing to the Friday meeting to
> FC4. I did a kickstart install which then required a few swings of the
> hammer to get DNS, DHCP and Apache working. These were not light swings
> either. They were good solid smash the %$*@ out of the system type swings.

I believe FC4 uses gcc4, that sounds like what you are running up against.

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Received on Thu Jun 23 20:41:18 2005