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

["Mr. Crusher" <crusher kersur net>]

Good idea, I'll give that a shot.  Hadn't thought of it that way before.
Thanx!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Feehan" <sfeehan@sbb.uvm.edu>
To: <rpm-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: RPM Update Attempt for Sendmail/glibc/etc.. becomes a Chicken
or the Egg scenario


> 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
> -- 
> Steve Feehan
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Structural Biology and Bioinformatics
> University of Vermont
>
>
>