rpm problem

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    I keep a local mirror of all the released updates.  Then I log in to 
each machine that needs updating, do an NFS mount of the storage server 
containing the updates and run 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm'.  This works for all of 
my FC3 machines.  However, recently I started having problems with my 
FC4 ones:

    [3] $> mount -t nfs -o rw,hard,intr storage:/storage /mnt/storage
    [4] $> cd /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/
    [5] /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/ $> rpm -Fvh i386/*.rpm
    warning: package glibc = 2.3.5-10.3 was already added, skipping 
glibc < 2.3.5-10.3
    error: error reading from file i386/glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm
    [6] /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/ $>

    Trying to install just glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm, I get the 
following errors:

    [15] /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/ $> rpm -Fvh 
i386/glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm
    error: Failed dependencies:
        glibc-common = 2.3.5-10.3 is needed by glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686
        glibc = 2.3.5-10 is needed by (installed) 
glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.i386
        glibc = 2.3.5-10 is needed by (installed) glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.i386


    Looking at currently installed packages for glibc, I have:

    [20] $> cat /var/log/rpm/rpmpkgs | grep glibc
    glibc-2.3.5-10.i686.rpm
    glibc-common-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm
    glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm
    glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm
    glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.94.i386.rpm


    Looking at what's in the update mirror for glibc, I find:

    [23] $> ls -l /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/i386/glibc-*
    -rw-rw-r--  1 60001 537  4436547 Aug 23 12:07 
i386/glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
    -rw-rw-r--  1 60001 537  5997620 Aug 23 12:07 
i386/glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm
    -rw-rw-r--  1 60001 537 15323069 Aug 23 12:07 
i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
    -rw-rw-r--  1 60001 537  2026880 Aug 23 12:07 
i386/glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
    -rw-rw-r--  1 60001 537   610014 Aug 23 12:07 
i386/glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
    -rw-rw-r--  1 60001 537  1114586 Aug 23 12:07 
i386/glibc-profile-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
    -rw-rw-r--  1 60001 537   102815 Aug 23 12:07 
i386/glibc-utils-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm


    Now, if I try to install the i386 version of the same rpm, it works 
just fine.  So, why does it fail with the i686 one?  I've already ruled 
out corruption and/or server or connection problems.  I've even 
redownloaded the entire mirror (from a different mirror-source) on the 
local FC4 machine, just to try and got the same problem.

    Anyone have any light to shed here?

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