Circular dependency Rawhide glibc and glibc-common

Per Bothner per at bothner.com
Mon Feb 23 17:15:23 UTC 2009


Will Woods wrote:
> Here's the error from my (32-bit) system, which has *only* i386
> glibc{,-devel,-common,-headers} installed:
> 
> Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.9.90-3 is needed by package
> glibc-2.9.90-3.i386 (installed)
> 
> It looks like yum isn't considering glibc-common-2.9.90-7.i586 as a
> potential provider of glibc-common for the upgrade transaction.. or
> something? Depsolving makes my head hurt. Full log is attached.

So what is the recommended fix for this?  Manually install
the two rpms with rpm --nodeps?

$ sudo yum update
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glib2.i586 0:2.19.8-1.fc11 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.9.90-2 for package: glibc
---> Package glibc-common.i586 0:2.9.90-7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glibc = 2.9.90-7 for package: glibc-common
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc.i686 0:2.9.90-7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.9.90-2 for package: glibc
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
glibc-2.9.90-2.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
   --> Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.9.90-2 is needed by package 
glibc-2.9.90-2.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.9.90-2 is needed by package 
glibc-2.9.90-2.i386 (installed)
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