[NTLUG:Discuss] Avoiding evil --updating glibc

[Richard Geoffrion]

> > > What you should do is get the SRPM for openssl and rebuild it
yourself.

DONE.

> > > The glibc dependency is there because that's what openssl was built
> > > with.  Get the source and you solve that problem.

Ah! I get it.


> rpm -Uvh glibc*.rpm

I tried that and it wouldn't work.  I wound up using WEBMIN to install the
glibc rpm package.   There was an IGNORE DEP. switch that got the job done.


>
> 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. :)
>
well, I did the deed.  So far so good.  Now I'm off to get the tjbdns
package you talked about.

> -- A.L.Lambert
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