Re: Upgrading glibc RPM

["Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk gmail com>]

On 4/14/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've got some software that requires glibc 2.3.2.  It needs to run on
> a RH 8 box, which runs glibc 2.2.
>
> What's the safest way of added glib2.3 to the box?  I'm currently
> building a source RPM for glibc 2.3.2 meant for RH 9 on a RH 8
> machine.  Could I just install (not upgrade) the built RPMs (assuming
> they build correctly)?
>
> Or should I be doing something different?

Hm, well, it seems to be working.  :-)  I'm always a little nervous
updating glibc.  I had to do an update (and not an install) due to
conflicts with the old version.  And binutils had to be updated as
well.