Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> wrote: > > Anyway, I got glibc-2.2.3 and I tried to update and there are lots of > dependencies that fail. There are many other packages that depend on the > old glibc-2.1, ok, irritating, but I understand. > > On of these packages is pam, so I go get the latest pam, BUT it depends > on rpm 4.0 to be installed. Another irritation. :-) > > Grabbed rpm 4.0, it depends on glibc-2.2.3! ARRGH! Circular > dependencies. > > Is my only choice to compile everything by hand? Well, you probably don't have to recompile everything, but you may have to compile at least one thing. Perhaps try doing an `rpm --rebuild' on the rpm 4.0 source. Perhaps you'd be able to upgrade that, then install everything (of course, rpm might itself become dependent on glibc-2.1..) Also, have you perhaps tried just installing (rather than upgrading) glibc-2.2.3? I suppose it's possible you could get two glibcs on the system at once, long enough to upgrade rpm and then upgrade the other packages. I suppose you could also ignore pam for a while -- it's only around to authenticate a login, so as long as you have several shells up and running, and don't type `exit', you'll be okay until it can be upgraded. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ WWhhaatt ddooeess / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ dduupplleexx mmeeaann?? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]