[NTLUG:Discuss] Avoiding evil causes catch-22 when updating glibc on fresh RH62 box

[Richard Geoffrion]

OK.  I scratched the previous message I was going to send and got one step
closer.   *BUT*

I am running into a  catch-22 situation trying to update GLIBC to 2.2.

Scenario.  Fresh custom install of RH 6.2.  No Gnome--console mode only.
Server is currently running on one nic behind a masq box.

Packages installed or updated so far.

Webmin
rpm4

one (of many) packages that I WANT to load but can't
openssl-0.9.6a-4.i386.rpm

problem:  Failed dependencies:  libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by
openssl.....

ok...no problem.  I download the new glibc rpms from redhat (
RHSA-2001:002-03) into their own directory and tried to install them.  I
tried the commands

rpm -Fvh *.rpm
rpm -ivh *.rpm
and even tried to do each one manually.

[catch22]
glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm won't install because glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by
glibc-2.2-12 (along with various other packages like python, passwd, etc...)

glibc-common won't install because glibc version less that 2.2 conflicts.
(WELL DUH!)
[/catch22]

I've attempted a --force option on various command lines but I'm not getting
through to this +near+ evil OS.

help!