Circular dependency Rawhide glibc and glibc-common

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 19:04 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Per Bothner <per at bothner.com> wrote:
> >> 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?
> >>
> > There ought to be a way to upgrade using Yum. For x86_64 users it's
> > bad enough -- worse come to worst you can still wipe the 32-bit stack
> > and start again -- but the same problem is present on a 32-bit
> > install.
> >
> > glibc-2.9.20-2.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
> >  --> Missing dependency: glibc-common = 2.9.90-2 ...
> >
> 
> Happily, this is a yum problem only; RPM itself is fine. I installed
> glibc-common.i586 and glibc.i686 by hand and it does not need the
> --nodeps flag.
> 
> x86_64 users can do the same, but they'd have to download manually
> glibc.x86_64 and glibc-common.x86_64 as well.
> 

Can someone please file a bug on this? I can't recreate it and since I'm
not seeing this filed A LOT I can only assume I'm not alone in not being
able to recreate it.

So, please, if you can recreate this, file it.

-sv