Re: RPM Update Attempt for Sendmail/glibc/etc.. becomes a Chicken or the Egg scenario

[Steve Feehan <sfeehan sbb uvm edu>]

Build an RPM for your system(s) from the SRPM of the target
sendmail version. This new RPM will then depend on the versions
of glibc, etc. that are currently installed on your system(s).

Steve

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:51:36AM -0400, Mr. Crusher wrote:
> Due to the recent announcement of a major exploit in any version of sendmail earlier than 8.12.8, I am attempting to update to the latest sendmail version, on several RH 7.2 & 7.3 systems, but unfortunately, it complains about glibc dependencies, and many other things.. so, I try to update glibc, and it complains about gcc needing the old version, and so on, and so on.. Anyone have any solutions or references on this subject?  Up2date is worthless in this case, since it doesn't have any newer version of Sendmail other than what I already have installed (8.11.6).  These are the errors I get when attempting any sort of update to glibc, beginning with the sendmail rpm update attempt:
> 
> >rpm -Uvh sendmail-8.12.9-7.i386.rpm 
> error: failed dependencies:
>         /usr/sbin/alternatives   is needed by sendmail-8.12.9-7
>         chkconfig >= 1.3 is needed by sendmail-8.12.9-7
>         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)   is needed by sendmail-8.12.9-7
>         libcrypto.so.4   is needed by sendmail-8.12.9-7
>         libdb-4.1.so   is needed by sendmail-8.12.9-7
>         libhesiod.so.0   is needed by sendmail-8.12.9-7
>         libsasl2.so.2   is needed by sendmail-8.12.9-7
>         libssl.so.4   is needed by sendmail-8.12.9-7
>         libwrap.so.0   is needed by sendmail-8.12.9-7
> 
> >rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles glibc-2.3.2-4.80.6.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         glibc-common = 2.3.2-4.80.6 is needed by glibc-2.3.2-4.80.6
>         glibc > 2.2.4 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.4-32
>         glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.4-32
> 
> >rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.6.i386.rpm 
> error: failed dependencies:
>         glibc < 2.3.2 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.6
>         glibc-common = 2.2.4-32 is needed by glibc-2.2.4-32
> 
> >rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles glibc-devel-2.3.2-4.80.6.i386.rpm  
> error: failed dependencies:
>         glibc = 2.3.2 is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.2-4.80.6
>         binutils < 2.13.90.0.2-2 conflicts with glibc-devel-2.3.2-4.80.6
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Steve Feehan
Unix Systems Administrator
Structural Biology and Bioinformatics
University of Vermont