Problem with glibc update

[Rick Stevens]

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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