On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:15 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > >See if this works: > >cd /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/i386 > ># rpm -Uvh \ > >glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm \ > >glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm \ > >glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm \ > >glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm > > > This works. However, my question still stands, why does it fail > initially when I do a wildcard update? I'd guess (and it is only a guess) that it sees the i386 version of the package first, discards the i686 version because it's the same version/release of the same package, and later finds out it actually needed the i686 version to match what you had installed. > >If you've mirrored the "repodata" directory along with the packages > >themselves, you could actually use yum: > > > > > I don't mirror that because I don't use yum. rpm has always proven > successful to me, so why change to yum (which I did and it caused me all > kinds of problems.) What sort of problems? Did the problems involve third-party repos? There's no need to use them - you could disable all but [core] and [updates-released] and still have useful functionality. In this particular instance, yum would have worked where rpm failed you. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
