[lug] glibc and yum update woes

[Collins Richey]

On 8/27/05, D. Stimits <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
> Well, through a judicious use of yum erase and --nodeps on glibc 2.3.90
> (this made me really nervous, I thought I'd never do this), I got rid of
> some of those problems and used yum update to get all of my glibc
> working via yum. I'm still a bit disgusted that they'd put something
> like gqview on fedora-extras as an update that requires a dependency not
> available on any of the fedora servers.
> 

Well, you did realize that FC is not designed to be a stable platform
but rather a platform for experimentation, right? You've put yourself
on the [bleeding|leading] edge of RH development. That being said, did
you report what you found as a bug?

-- 
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write 
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not 
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan