Problem with glibc update

[Bevan C. Bennett]

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