[CentOS] elrepo problem?

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
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> On 09/09/2014 10:49 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> So much for elrepo being a painless way to get working Nvidia drivers...
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> This isn't elrepo's fault.
>
> The glibc update changes the location of the ldconfig binary. It's still
> in root's path, but anything that had a hardcoded path as a requirement
> will break.

Ummm, great...  I thought that was just the sort of breakage that
'Enterprise' OS versions were supposed to avoid.  (I realize it's not
CentOS's fault either).

> The original glibc package provides both /usr/sbin/ldconfig and
> /sbin/ldconfig, while the updated package only provides /sbin/ldconfig.

The whole 's' concept was a bad idea to begin with.  Why did they have
to make it worse?

>> Yum update (or just update glibc) says:
>>
>> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/sbin/ldconfig for package:
>> nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.123-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: Package: nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.123-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 (@elrepo)
>>            Requires: /usr/sbin/ldconfig
>>            Removing: glibc-2.17-55.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda)
>>                Not found
>>            Updated By: glibc-2.17-55.el7_0.1.x86_64 (updates)
>>                Not found
>>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>
>> What do those 'not found's mean?
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> It means there's no more /usr/sbin/ldconfig provided in the newer packages.

Seems odd to say it twice.   But what's the right fix here?

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