Problem with glibc update

[Steven Stern]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:10:51 -0500, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:

>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

In any case, I switched back from rpmfind to fedora.redhat.com. That site
seems too busy to connect. I'll just put this off for a couple of days.
--
   Steve