[CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

Sun Apr 17 15:27:45 UTC 2011
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>

2011/4/17 Leonard den Ottolander <leonard at den.ottolander.nl>:
> Hi Akemi,
>
> On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 18:18 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> See also:
>>
>> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939&forum=37
>
> Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody reads the
> forums. Perhaps it is possible to give a heads up about such breakage
> via the CentOS general or announce mailing list before such a broken
> package is released into the wild? That would actually make it an
> advantage to swim down stream :-) .
>
> I would like to advice everyone to avoid this update by adding
> exclude=glibc*2.5-58.el5_6.2 nscd*2.5-58.el5_6.2
> to their updates channel config - added it to base just to be sure -
> until upstream releases a fix.
>
> Regards,
> Leonard.

Does this also affects grub? if so, then this is very critical, it can
trash my rhel installations :/

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Eero