[plug] upgrading glibc in Fedora Core 4

[Ian Kent]

On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 21:18 +0800, David Buddrige wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been attempting for the last few hours to upgrade glibc on my
> machine, because some other software I have requires a later version.
> The box I am running was [originally] installed with Fedora Core 4,
> and so I am trying to upgrade the bits that need upgrading to allow me
> to upgrade other stuff that I am actually interested in running. 8-)
> 
> Below is a dump of my shell commands [and results] that I have been
> getting in an attempt to perform this upgrade.
> 
> Is there something I am doing wrong, or is there some thing I can do
> to complete this upgrade?  It is seeming to me like a chicken/egg
> problem of circular dependancies.  
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> thanks
> 
> David.
> 
> [root at main compiled]# ls -l glib*
> -rw-rw-r--  1 david david  4947776 Jun 16 21:06 glibc-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--  1 david david  6510115 Jun 16 18:05 glibc-2.3.6-3.i686.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--  1 david david 16289967 Jun 16 18:22
> glibc-common-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--  1 david david  2032943 Jun 16 21:01
> glibc-devel-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--  1 david david   622021 Jun 16 20:56
> glibc-headers-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--  1 david david   105275 Jun 16 20:48
> glibc-utils-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
> [root at main compiled]# rpm -qa | grep glibc
> glibc-devel-2.3.5-10
> glibc-common-2.3.5-10
> glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.94
> glibc-headers-2.3.5-10
> glibc-2.3.5-10
> glibc-utils-2.3.5-10
> glibc-profile-2.3.5-10
> [root at main compiled]# rpm -U glibc-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
> warning: glibc-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
> ID 4f2a6fd2
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         glibc-common = 2.3.6-3 is needed by glibc-2.3.6-3.i386
>         glibc > 2.3.5 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.5-10.i386
>         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
>         glibc = 2.3.5-10 is needed by (installed)
> glibc-utils-2.3.5-10.i386
> [root at main compiled]# rpm -U glibc-common-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
> warning: glibc-common-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
> NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         glibc < 2.3.6 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.6-3.i386
>         glibc-common = 2.3.5-10 is needed by (installed)
> glibc-2.3.5-10.i686
> [root at main compiled]#

You need to update them all at once but then you'll probably get
dependency problems on packages that depend on glibc itself.

Why don't you just "yum update glibc"?
The glibc version you're trying to update to appears to be on the
mirrors.

Ian