Yum is kicking because of glibc-common conflicts

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Mon May 21 17:21:56 UTC 2007


On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:08:51AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:08:14AM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:37:38PM -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
> > > You are right....I tried that and got:
> > > rpm -qa |grep glibc-common
> > > glibc-common-2.5.90-22
> > > glibc-common-2.5.90-21
> > 
> > 
> > Actually it is better idea here to remove glibc-common-2.5.90-22
> > and run 'yup update' again.
> 
> There's always --justdb, which doesn't remove any files.

That is precisely the problem. :-)  There are updates when you
really want to remove various obsolete files and in case of
duplicates maybe they are already gone, or maybe not.  Often
this is not an issue but in general you cannot assume that.

   Michal




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