[NTLUG:Discuss] OK to replace glibc?

[Thomas Cameron]

On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:01 -0500, Rick Matthews wrote:
> [Resending from my subscribed email address. duh!]
> 
> Current environment:
> CentOS 4.0
> AMD K6-2 processor (reports as i586)
> glibc-2.3.4-2.i386.rpm
> glibc-common-2.3.4-2.i386.rpm
> 
> Can I replace:
> glibc-2.3.4-2.i386.rpm 
> with 
> glibc-2.3.4-2.i586.rpm
> without making any other changes (both rpms built by the same people)?
> 
> If the answer is yes, will rpm know what I am doing or will I need
> to use '--force'?

Should be fine, but you may very well need to --force it.

Thomas