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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