[CentOS] yum update - Glibc Problem

Thu Nov 17 00:52:28 UTC 2005
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

On 11/16/05, Lee W <lee at unassemble.co.uk> wrote:
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 23:02 +0000, Lee W wrote:
> >
> >
> >>e2fsprogs.i386                           1.35-12.2.EL4          base
> >>glibc-common.i386                        2.3.4-2.13             base
> >>grub.i386                                0.95-3.5               base
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Interesting. It looks like the mirror you're hitting doesn't have the
> >glibc package. Pick another.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I've tried a few different mirrors, some in the US, some in Canada and
> also 2 in the UK all of them end in the same error.  I also tried hard
> coding the releasever to 4.2 in case the files are missing out of the
> specific repo of 4.0.

I'm guessing it's a bit more than that. I'm guessing it's an arch mismatch.

please add the following line to root's .rpmmacros
%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}

then rpm -q glibc

then do 'yum list glibc'

yum by default has exactarch matching enabled. my guess is that the
arch on your system doesn't match the updated arch on the mirrors.



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Jim Perrin
System Architect - UIT
Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center