Bob Tanner wrote: > > I got a G3 running YDL and I would like to upgrade glibc (this problem is not > specific to YDL). > > 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? Grab the RPM 4.0 tarball, build it using your existing RPM using rpm -tb rpm-4.0-whatever.tar.gz, then install it, you'll then have RPM 4 built against whatever libraries are currently installed. Now upgrading glibc manually on an RPM system, thats deep voodoo as far as I'm concerned...