Re: [rh-rpm] Problem for upgrading glibc 2.2.2-10 to 2.2.4

[Matthias Saou <matthias rpmforge net>]

Once upon a time, Rex wrote :

> On Wednesday 30 January 2002 10:42 am, you wrote:
> 
> > -Summary
> > -A cross-pointing "dependency" is preventing an upgrade of a package
> > +Summary
> > +How do I install a pair of packages if A requires B and B requires A?
> 
> This has been a pet-peeve of mine for awhile now... why on earth would 
> anyone make rpms with circular dependancies like this, instead of making
> a single, simpler, rpm,  especially in this case (glibc) where the
> sources are coming from one place (ie, a single src.rpm)?  I mean, heck,
> the contents of both have to be installed anyway, why not package them
> that way?  In general, I think this is a bad idea, and if it *must* be
> done, there had better be a real good reason for doing so.

Because you save a lot of space since you have both i386 and i686 glibc
packages for which all what was included in both was split into a
glibc-common package. This happened shortly after the 7.0 Red Hat Linux
release and is quite a pain to deal with for making updated 7.0
installation CDs since that specificity is very badly dealt with.

Matthias

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