Re: RPM problem: How do I properly update glibc?

[Chuck Campbell <campbell accelinc com>]

>On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:59:21AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
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> 
> It shouldn't break anything except leave crumbs in your rpm database
> that say you have the previous version installed also.  The "-ivh" would
> work if you DIDN'T have a previous version but the dependencies are
> circular (as they are with glibc...unfortunately).  I tend to agree with
> you, however.  The instructions should read "rpm -Uvh" (install and
> delete previous version).

Hopefully last question on the way to perfect clarity :-)

If I have messed up and installed an i386 version of package-X, then followed
by installing the i686 version of package-X are they both there, or did
the second install actually overwrite the binary executable image?

I suspect the overwrite scenario, so I assume the best thing to do is to 
remove the two packages completely via rpm commands to clean up the database,
and then reinstall the i686 version.

In the case of glibc, I don't want to remove the only current version from
the last (i686) install, so how do I clean up the rpmdatabase?

thanks,
-chuck


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