Re: Conflicts between rpm 4.0 and glibc 2.2.2

[Andreas Jaeger]

Kiri Wagstaff <address@hidden> writes:

> This is not really a bug as such, but I thought you might want to
> know.  I recently upgraded from rpm 3.0.5 to 4.0 at the same time that
> I upgraded from glibc 2.1.3 to 2.2.2.  I upgraded rpm first, then
> glibc.  The changes caused by "make install" for glibc caused rpm to
> core dump whenever I used it with -i or -U.  I reinstalled rpm, and it
> went back to its normal behavior (one can only hope that this hasn't
> broken something related to glibc..).
> 
> I believe that these two packages are writing over some of the same
> files.  One that I was able to locate is
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h.  rpm and glibc write very different
> versions of this file.  I suspect that some installed libraries may
> also clobber each other, although I'm not certain.  You may want to
> check into this.

Contact the RPM folks, libintl is part of glibc and if they install
it, it's a bug in RPM.

Andreas
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