glibc-2.2.5 with RedHat 7.2 for J2SDK 1.4.2_02

I have RedHat Linux 7.2 with a lot of the RPM updates applied from

/pub/redhat/updates/7.2/en/os/athlon and
/pub/redhat/updates/7.2/en/os/i386

... from the nearest FTP mirror

The last glibc for RedHat 7.2 was for glibc-2-2.4.


Now I want to install J2SDK 1.4.2_02.
Granted that RedHat 7.2 is not on the list of supported configurations:

    http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/system-configurations.html

Part of the release notes says to apply glibc-2-2.5:

    http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/relnotes.html#linux


So what I did was apply the latest glibc-2.2.x RPM ( 2.2.5 in this case 
) from RedHat 7.__3__ ( which I sometimes do from time to time for other 
RPM packages as well ) from the FTP mirror. After applying the RPM, JDK 
1.3.1_09 which previously worked no longer works ( complaining, IIRC, of 
a missing symbol ), ssh to the linux box no longer works as well. I have 
to apply back glibc 2.2.4 for RedHat 7.2 to make things work again.


Questions now are:

1) What is so specific about glibc-2.2.5 RPM for Redhat 7.3 that it wont 
work with RedHat 7.2 ?

2) Any reason why a glibc-2.2.5 RPM was built for RedHat 7.3 but not for 
7.2 ( which I guess is answered by question [1] as well ) ?





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