On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:10:51 -0500, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
