Problem with glibc update
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Jan 12 21:47:51 UTC 2004
Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>> The classic circular dependency issue. I thought yum handled this
>> better.
>>
>> The fix is to install the common bit with the "--nodeps" option to rpm,
>> THEN install the regular glibc bits:
>>
>> rpm -Fvh --nodeps glibc-common*.rpm
>> rpm -Fvh glibc*.rpm
>>
>> Works for me.
>
>
> Yum -does- appear to handle this better. The problem seems to be that
> the original poster's up2date didn't pick up glibc-common as needing to
> be updated, and he didn't specify it explicitly. Compare with the
> following:
>
> [bevan at wallace ~]> yum list updates
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Name Arch Version Repo
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------glibc
> i686 2.3.2-101.4 updates-released
> glibc-common i386 2.3.2-101.4 updates-released
> glibc-devel i386 2.3.2-101.4 updates-released
> glibc-headers i386 2.3.2-101.4 updates-released
> nscd i386 2.3.2-101.4 updates-released
>
> [bevan at wallace ~]> sudo yum update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> Dependencies resolved
> I will do the following:
> [update: nscd 2.3.2-101.4.i386]
> [update: glibc-devel 2.3.2-101.4.i386]
> [update: glibc-common 2.3.2-101.4.i386]
> [update: glibc 2.3.2-101.4.i686]
> [update: glibc-headers 2.3.2-101.4.i386]
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Getting nscd-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm
> Getting glibc-devel-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm
> Getting glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm
> Getting glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rpm
> Getting glibc-headers-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm
> Running test transaction:
> Test transaction complete, Success!
> glibc-common 100 % done 1/10
> glibc 100 % done 2/10
> Stopping sshd:[ OK ]
> Starting sshd:[ OK ]
> glibc-headers 100 % done 3/10
> nscd 100 % done 4/10
> glibc-devel 100 % done 5/10
> Completing update for nscd - 6/10
> Completing update for glibc-devel - 7/10
> Completing update for glibc-common - 8/10
> Completing update for glibc - 9/10
> Completing update for glibc-headers - 10/10
> Updated: nscd 2.3.2-101.4.i386 glibc-devel 2.3.2-101.4.i386
> glibc-common 2.3.2-101.4.i386 glibc 2.3.2-101.4.i686 glibc-headers
> 2.3.2-101.4.i386
> Transaction(s) Complete
Ah! You're right. I didn't notice the missing dependency.
I just did an update against kernel.org's mirror and it handled it
nicely. Ok, yum's vindicated. It is I who's broken!
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