[ILUG] updating glibc with rpm

Stephane Dudzinski stephane at antefacto.com
Fri Jan 11 10:00:01 GMT 2002


My system ain't broke my friend, and at least i got avifile working.

Don't mind this message, that's a personal discussion ;)

On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 09:56, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:31:29AM +0000, Stephane Dudzinski mentioned:
> > i know i'll probably make some new friends here but the only i found was
> > to do it by the rh updater or do : rpm -Uvh glibc*.rpm --nodeps
> 
>  And that is why you never have a working system.
> 
>  Chris, what options are you using. glibc usually comes as the following
> packages;
> 
> glibc-2.2.4-19.3.i386.rpm
> glibc-common-2.2.4-19.3.i386.rpm
> glibc-devel-2.2.4-19.3.i386.rpm
> nscd-2.2.4-19.3.i386.rpm
> 
>  To upgrade one, you must upgrade them all on the same command line - you
> can't just upgrade -common without doing the others. Can you post the
> exact command line & options used.
> 
> Kate, who has had far too much RPM experience of late
> 
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