Hi,
I hava a Mandrake 9.0 system installed and I wish to upgrade to
glibc2.3 I thought the best way would be to use a Mandrake rpm package,
(was I wrong?)
after downloading rpm packages and solving a few minor dependencies
problems I ended up with the following sets of rpms to install:
glibc-2.3.2-14mdk.i586.rpm
glibc-devel-2.3.2-14mdk.i586.rpm
glibc-static-devel-2.3.2-14mdk.i586.rpm
locales-2.3.2-5mdk.i586.rpm
locales-en-2.3.2-5mdk.i586.rpm
however I still have a conflict:
error: failed dependencies:
initscripts < 6.91-18mdk conflicts with glibc-2.3.2-14mdk
I currently have installed initscripts-6.91-16.1mdk
I do not want to upgrade my initscripts because:
a. that gives more dependencies problems.
b. I made some creative changes to my initscripts.
c. I am not sure what would happen to my system.
I checked which files my current initscripts has and which
are dynamicly linked execuetables and eneded up with the following list:
/bin/doexec
/bin/ipcalc
/bin/usleep
/sbin/consoletype
/sbin/getkey
/sbin/initlog
/sbin/minilogd
/sbin/netreport
/sbin/ppp-watch
/usr/sbin/usernetctl
this was done by doing: rpm -ql initscripts > foo
file -f foo | grep dynamically | cut -d":" -f1
I figure these are the programs in danger of breaking, but this
is where I got stuck.
I am trying to figure out if I can safely force the installation of
glibc2.3 with out breaking my system. or if there is an alternative way
for upgrading my system considering I like installting other programs
from rpm.
I was unable to find initscripts-6.91-18mdk to compare with
initscripts-6.91-16mdk only much newer versions.
comments/suggestions?
Meir
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