Problem with glibc update

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Mon Jan 12 22:04:09 UTC 2004


On Monday 12 January 2004 13:59, Rick Stevens wrote:
> No, not at all.  rpm often can't sort out circular dependencies when
> you're trying to install a bunch of updates.  You must break the
> cycle somehow, and --nodeps is the way to do it.  Remember that
> up2date (and I suppose yum and apt) look at these things and call rpm
> with appropriate flags to break the loop.  I'm just doing it
> manually.

wrong.  Absolutely wrong.  If you have to use --nodeps to apply an 
upgrade then either A) you're using rpm wrong, or B) you've got the 
wrong updates.

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