[linux-help] Re: Updating glibc on RedHat 7

[Jeff Vian <jvian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was trying to update some packages as a result of the security holes,
and some of them required the updated glibc to be updated.
Mysql in particular, and the looped dependencies with glibc were
troublesome.


----- Original Message -----
From: Lars von dem Ast <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Updating glibc on RedHat 7


>
> Jeff Vian wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install the update for glibc 2.2 on RH7. (the distributed
> > glibc is 2.1)
> >
> > It is giving me dependency errors and I can't seem to get past them.
> >
> >     to upgrade glibc I use the command
> >             rpm -Fvh glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm
> >         the response is
> >             error: Failed dependencies
> >                 glibc-common = 2.2 is required by glibc-2.2-12
> >
> >     then I try to do the glibc-common first (It is not installed with
glibc
> > 2.1)
> >             rpm -i glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm
> >         the response is
> >             error: Failed dependencies
> >                  glibc < 2.2-12 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2-12
> >
> >     I thought about uninstalling glibc and then installing the newer
> > version, but it gives a list of 40+ packages that are dependent on glibc
and
> > will not uninstall.
> >
> > Does anyone have a fix for this, or suggestions on how to do the upgrade
for
> > glibc and the supporting packages???
> >
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> I'm curious, are you updating simply because they're on the RH update Web
page,
> or because you need to? I ran into the same problem and decided to just
wait
> for an issue to crop up that forced me to update....
>
> L
>
>
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