I keep a local mirror of all the released updates. Then I log in to
each machine that needs updating, do an NFS mount of the storage server
containing the updates and run 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm'. This works for all of
my FC3 machines. However, recently I started having problems with my
FC4 ones:
[3] $> mount -t nfs -o rw,hard,intr storage:/storage /mnt/storage
[4] $> cd /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/
[5] /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/ $> rpm -Fvh i386/*.rpm
warning: package glibc = 2.3.5-10.3 was already added, skipping
glibc < 2.3.5-10.3
error: error reading from file i386/glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm
[6] /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/ $>
Trying to install just glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm, I get the
following errors:
[15] /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/ $> rpm -Fvh
i386/glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.3.5-10.3 is needed by glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686
glibc = 2.3.5-10 is needed by (installed)
glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.i386
glibc = 2.3.5-10 is needed by (installed) glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.i386
Looking at currently installed packages for glibc, I have:
[20] $> cat /var/log/rpm/rpmpkgs | grep glibc
glibc-2.3.5-10.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm
glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.94.i386.rpm
Looking at what's in the update mirror for glibc, I find:
[23] $> ls -l /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/i386/glibc-*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 60001 537 4436547 Aug 23 12:07
i386/glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 60001 537 5997620 Aug 23 12:07
i386/glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 60001 537 15323069 Aug 23 12:07
i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 60001 537 2026880 Aug 23 12:07
i386/glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 60001 537 610014 Aug 23 12:07
i386/glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 60001 537 1114586 Aug 23 12:07
i386/glibc-profile-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 60001 537 102815 Aug 23 12:07
i386/glibc-utils-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
Now, if I try to install the i386 version of the same rpm, it works
just fine. So, why does it fail with the i686 one? I've already ruled
out corruption and/or server or connection problems. I've even
redownloaded the entire mirror (from a different mirror-source) on the
local FC4 machine, just to try and got the same problem.
Anyone have any light to shed here?
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