[CentOS] Missing EL4 glibc update

[Scott Silva]

on 2-12-2009 11:24 AM Akemi Yagi spake the following:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva-m4n3GYAQT2lWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> on 2-12-2009 3:08 AM CentOS User spake the following:
>>> Seeing upstream has an update for glibc
>>> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0052.html
>>> I rebuilt the glibc-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.src.rpm and
>>> it produced the following rpms :-
>>>
>>> glibc-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
>>> glibc-common-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
>>> glibc-debuginfo-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
>>> glibc-debuginfo-common-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
>>> glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
>>> glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
>>> glibc-profile-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
>>> glibc-utils-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
>>> nptl-devel-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
>>> nscd-2.3.4-2.41.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
>>>
>>> Is it okay to install all of them or should i skip the
>>> debuginfo rpms? Is an official CentOS update going to be
>>> made of the glibc from Red Hat?
>> If those were released with or after RHEL 5.3, then they will come out with or
>> after CentOS 5.3. Soon to be released to a mirror near you!
> 
> Those packages will eventually appear in CentOS mirrors (except they
> are for CentOS-4, not -5).  :-D

That is what I get for working on a server and answering mail at the same
time! Is it Friday yet? ;-P

> 
> The bug fixes (marked RHBA) may not get a high priority as security
> fixes (marked RHSA) do.  So, they may lag a bit when the developers
> are tied up with more urgent tasks.
> 
> You can see what you current have on your system by:
> 
> rpm -qa glibc\* nptl\* nscd
> 
> That will give you a hint as to which packages you want to update.
> 
> Akemi


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