[NTLUG:Discuss] Avoiding evil --updating glibc

[A.L.Lambert]

> > My general rule of thumb is to *never* update glibc just because I want
> > to.  I only update glibc when there are security or bugfix packages that
> > come from my distro.  If you have the balls to update glibc by yourself,
> > then you should have no problem reinstalling everything when you foobar
> > your system.  ;-p  (Speaking from experience)
> 
> in this case.  The glibc update is also a security fix.
> 
> > What you should do is get the SRPM for openssl and rebuild it yourself.
> > The glibc dependency is there because that's what openssl was built
> > with.  Get the source and you solve that problem.
> 
> I will try that, but there is still the security fix.


rpm -Uvh glibc*.rpm

	RPM is generally smart enough to figure out when it's asked to
install two packages that depend on each other to go ahead and do the
deed.  No gaurntees that it won't hose your system though. :)

-- A.L.Lambert
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