rpm reports 2 glibc, what can I do?

[Neal Becker]

Gene C. wrote:

> On Saturday 17 April 2004 17:50, Neal Becker wrote:
>> I'm trying to debug this:
>>
>> yum update
>> .....Unable to satisfy dependencies
>> Package dbh-devel needs dbh = 1.0.18-1, this is not available.
>> Package samba needs samba-common = 0:3.0.2a, this is not available.
>> Package xorg-x11-libs needs xorg-x11-libs-data =
>> 0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.9,
>> this                   is not available.
>> Package glibc needs glibc-common = 2.3.3-18, this is not available.
>>
>> I found this:
>> rpm -q glibc
>> glibc-2.3.3-18
>> glibc-2.3.3-18
>>
>> Probably this is the problem.  Obviously, I can't just erase glibc to fix
>> it.  What can I do?
> 
> First, are you on an AMD64 system?  If you are, you are suppose to have
> two ... one is i386 (actually i686) and the other is x86_64.
> 
> Try "rpm -qi glibc"  ... this might give you additional info.

Oh, I AM on x86_64.  I guess this is not why yum won't upgrade.

rpm -qi glibc doesn't actually tell the arch, unless I'm blind.

I guess this is useful:
rpm --query --queryformat "%{ARCH}\n" glibc
i686
x86_64

I'm really stuck trying to debug this.  I think I need to find something
that can dump the format used by yum headers to see why it's confused. 
In /var/cache/yum I have
glibc-0-2.3.3-20.x86_64.hdr

and all other glibc-stuff all with same versions, all x86_64 versions
present.  I tried rm /var/cache/yum and redownloading everything.  I tried
different mirrors.  This problem has persisted - it's not due to mirror
sync.