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
