[CentOS] AWOL rpm

Tue Mar 24 20:01:51 UTC 2015
Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:
> 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
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I thought I saw bunches of libraries in that rpm.
Let me look through my history.
......
Oh, fudge.  That was the devel package I was looking at.
Never mind.