[CentOS] elrepo problem?

Tue Sep 9 17:25:56 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/09/2014 10:49 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> So much for elrepo being a painless way to get working Nvidia drivers...
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063607

Seems odd that with both the new and old glibc versions,
rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/ldconfig
says
glibc-2.17-55.el7.x86_64
or
glibc-2.17-55.el7_0.1.x86_64
yet yum doesn't think so.

I guess symlinks really are evil and only useful for job security...

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   Les Mikesell
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