rpm/yum hurdles

[Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)]

> (Triggered by the recent mention of rpm formats)  I'm surprised that for a
> number of days the 'glibc-common' package in the F11 updates repository has
> had a "header problem", without that problem being addressed.  'yum' says
> that there is a dependency conflict concerning glibc-common, and won't
> update it.  I was able to install the recent F11 'glibc' update by myself
> manually downloading it and glibc-common, and using 'rpm' to install them
> simultaneously -- but even then 'rpm' told me its post-processing of
> glibc-common failed.

That's weird, I haven't had this problem, and I didn't even heard of
anyone having this issue.

Could you paste the whole error message ?

> I would have thought "hurdles" with updating F11 would have been noticed
> (and fixed) in the wider (beyond XO) Fedora community.

They usually are. As I said, I haven't heard of anyone encountering this issue.

Best regards,


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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)