Thank you Thomas!
This is the exact reason I have been screaming "has anyone actually used the
fixes they are posting for this particular problem". I am sorry if I appeared
"RUDE". Many of us realize that this list has many that are just cutting their
teeth on Linux/Unix. That is good. They are here to learn. But with such a
high magnitude problem posting information to make yourself appear smart might
destroy someone's system.
To summarize some of the solutions that are incorrect.
rpm -f is not the answer
rpm --nodeps is not the answer
using the interim version rpm 3.0.5 is not the answer
Now it is true that
rpm "somepackage" "someotherpackage" "somelastpackage"
will work for packages that are mutually dependent. But when I tried this with
rpm and glibc going from RedHat 5.2 > 6.0 the exact thing Thomas is pointing
out happened and it took me a week to get the system back to where it was to
begin with.
Is there anyone who has taken RedHat 6.2 rpm and glibc to the 7.0 level using
rpm. If so please share the way you did it. It might be necessary to build
and install glibc from the tarball, upgrade rpm, remove the tarball files and
then upgrade glibc with the rpm.
Peace
john
On 30-Nov-00 Thomas Ribbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Message: 15
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:17:17 +0000
> From: Thomas Ribbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: ML-redhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Chicken-and-egg - AGAIN
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:54:16PM -0500, William Stearns wrote:
>> Simply do the upgrade, but upgrade them both at the same time
>> with:
>>
>> rpm -Uvh glibc...rpm rpm...rpm
>
> Careful with that one! I haven't read the full thread (in fact I never
> *got* the full thread - I only got about 20 mails on the list over the
> past 24h...), but this command has potential for desaster.
> The one thing you have to make certain is that the new version of rpm
> you're trying to install is *not* using a new database format - 'cause
> in that case a "rpm --rebuilddb" is needed to make things work properly,
> and the command you listed might cause problems.
> Such database format changes have happened a couple of times in the
> past, e.g. somewhere between rpm 2.x->3.x and as well 3.x->4.x, IIRC.
>
> Cheerio,
>
> Thomas
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