[lug] Best way to update glibc packages.

[Sexton, George]

I download them into separate directories and then do:

rpm -Fvh i686/glibc*.rpm i386/glibc-common*.rpm

Then change to the i386 directory and run 

rpm -Fvh glibc*.rpm



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of David Stepaniak
Sent: 02 January, 2002 3:34 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] Best way to update glibc packages.


Hello,

I am wondering how to best update the glibc family of packages
for Red Hat 7.2, kernel 2.4.7-10smp on an i686. The present
version-release for these packages on this particualar
machine is 2.2.4-13.

>From Red Hat, the following packages in .rpm form are listed:

Package        Version       Release     Architecture

glibc          2.2.4         19.3        i386
glibc-devel    2.2.4         19.3        i386
glibc-profile  2.2.4         19.3        i386
glibc-common   2.2.4         19.3        i386
nscd           2.2.4         19.3        i386

glibc          2.2.4         19.3        i686

Would it be unwise to download glibc-devel (i386),
glibc-profile (i386), and glibc-common (i386) to satisfy
the dependencies of glibc, and in addition dowload
nscd (i386), and glibc specifically for i686 --
then freshen these packages in their own directory
invoking rpm -Fvh *.rpm?

I am very curious about the potential architecture conflict
if glibc is i686 and the rest i386.

Thank you for any input that may come my way.

David Stepaniak
davestep at cgd.ucar.edu

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