Bug 24347

Summary: !glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm unable to Upgrade!
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <ml>
Component: glibcAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version: 7.0CC: fweimer
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Description Need Real Name 2001-01-19 10:21:06 UTC 
Hello, i tried to upgrade from glibc-2.1.92-14 to glibc-2.2-12.
I downloadet the following files from updates.redhat.com
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glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm              |
glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm       |
glibc-devel-2.2-12.i386.rpm        |
glibc-profile-2.2-12.i386.rpm      |
libstdc++-2.96-69.i386.rpm         |
stunnel-3.10-2.i386.rpm            |
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all fine then i done:
rpm -Fvh glibc-profile-2.2-12.i386.rpm !ok!
rpm -Fvh libstdc++-2.96-69.i386.rpm !ok!
rpm -Fvh nscd-2.2-12.i386.rpm !ok!
rpm -Fvh stunnel-3.10-2.i386.rpm !ok!
rpm -Fvh glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm !ok!
rpm -Fvh glibc-devel-2.2-12.i386.rpm !error: failed dependencies: glibc = 
2.2 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2-12!
rpm -Fvh glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm !error: failed dependencies: glibc-common = 
2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12 /usr/bin/getent   is needed by stunnel-3.10-
2!
but i have installed glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm !!

what is wrong here, i dont understand, please help me out

Sincerly Markus Lanthaler

rpm -Fvh glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm
Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2001-01-19 10:25:25 UTC 
If you read e.g. the errata page for glibc, it mentions you have to
rpm -Uvh glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm
and then do the usual -Fvh stuff. That's because glibc was split into two
subpackages and the intent is to require both to be installed at once.
The reason why it was split is to save space: glibc-common is only i386 while
glibc is i386 and i686 (similarly for other arches).