[CentOS] AWOL rpm

Tue Mar 24 18:25:17 UTC 2015
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:56:29AM -0700, Ali Corbin wrote:
> This morning I was showing a co-worker how to upgrade glibc.  And he
> found that yum wouldn't give him
> glibc-common-2.5-123.el5_11.1.i386.rpm.
> 
> So I browsed to the web interface of one of the centos5 mirrors, and
> couldn't find it either.  Not in the x86_64 tree anyway.

It's in the updates tree for i386:
eg
http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/updates/i386/RPMS/glibc-common-2.5-123.el5_11.1.i386.rpm

There's no i386 version in the x86_64 tree because it doesn't have any
librarie, just binaries (eg /usr/bin/getent) and non-architecture files
(eg locale, defaults).

(Basically, don't install this on a 64bit machine!!)

-- 

rgds
Stephen