How to downgrade glibc?

[Daniel Rubin <dlrubin yahoo com>]

I'm running RedHat9, and in order to install oracle
9.2, I need to temporarily downgrade glibc libraries
(because of a conflict the installer has with the
latest RH9 glibc).
What is the best way to do this?
I can do this:

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage glibc-2.3.2-5.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm 

or, I can do:

rpm -Uhv --oldpackage --replacefiles
glibc-2.3.2-5.i686.rpm glibc-common-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm 

or:

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles
glibc-2.3.2-5.i686.rpm glibc-common-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm 

Which of these (or other method) is best?


And then, after installing oracle, I presume I'd go
back to the current glibc this way?

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles 
glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i686.rpm 
glibc-devel-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm 

or simply
rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i686.rpm 
glibc-devel-2.3.2-5.i386.rpm ?

Thanks,
Daniel





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