Ask Slashdot: Upgrading Red Hat 5.2 to Linux 2.2.0

Daniel Roberts wants to know about the following:: "I am running Red Hat 5.2, and I have been trying to upgrade to 2.2 since pre1. My problem is, I have read through the "Changes" file very carefully, and tried to upgrade all the needed packages... But it still won't work. I am looking for binary RPMs whenever I can, but even Raw Hide does not seem to have all the needed updates to make it work. In particular, I cannot get libc5.4.46 to work, for some reason, even though I've tried to install the binary tar version. My question is: what do I need to do to get Linux 2.2.0 working properly with a stock Red Hat 5.2 system??" Update: 02/12 03:02 by C : I've just discoveded information about "Project Tango" which may be the answer to this question. Thanks to Palin for the heads up.

C :I was going to run this as another story on this, but after rereading I figure it's better if we add in this libc-5 issue from davie, who is in the process of a similar upgrade:

"I've built and installed libc-6 and it seems to be working fine. Now I need (at least according to the Changes text in the kernel source) to upgrade my libc-5. The problem is, I can't find any references on how to install a new build of libc-5 for compatability support only--I'm concerned that if I just 'configure, make, make install', I will break libc-6. I've looked at every FAQ and HOWTO I can find and there's nothing helpful. I looked at a libc-5 update RPM for RH 5.1, but I'm reluctant to guess where files go and which files need to be replaced. The libc-5 binary tarball includes fewer files than the update RPM, so I'm not sure what to do. Is there a doc online that explains how to build libc-5 and install it for compatability on a libc-6 box?"

Palin wrote in with this information...and a reliability question on the Tango Project, which looks to be the cure for this problem:

"Do you or anyone else in the Linux comunity know if the Tango Project's RPMs work? If you don't know what the Tango project is... It is a set of rpms for Redhat Linux 5.2 that provide all the necessary software (in RPM format) that one needs to install a 2.2.X kernel. I'd like to apply them...but was wondering what success others have had... The software can be found.... here and here. If it works I might be able to mirror it in the US...but I'm not going to try unless I know people have had success with it... "