Circular dependency Rawhide glibc and glibc-common

[Michel Salim]

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.

Regards,

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