Problem with glibc update

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:59:00PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>The fix is to install the common bit with the "--nodeps" option to rpm,
> >>THEN install the regular glibc bits:
> >>
> >>	rpm -Fvh --nodeps glibc-common*.rpm
> >
> >
> >AAK!  Danger!
> 
> No, not at all.  rpm often can't sort out circular dependencies when
> you're trying to install a bunch of updates.  You must break the cycle
> somehow, and --nodeps is the way to do it.  Remember that up2date (and
> I suppose yum and apt) look at these things and call rpm with
> appropriate flags to break the loop.  I'm just doing it manually.

But up2date/yum/apt doesn't do what you're doing manually.
It simply installs glibc and gilbc-common in one transaction.
If you are not using up2date/yum/apt, you should install
rpm -Fvh glibc-2*.i686.rpm glibc-common*.i386.rpm ...
without any --nodeps.

	Jakub