Downgrade glibc & yum

[rouse01]

After upgrade from rh8.0 to fc4, 'yum update' ran but complained about dependencies related to openoffice & httpd-mmn. So I started updating individual packages - like 'yum update kernel'. This worked fine for many packages, but after updating glibc yum broke:

Installroot: /
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released

I've followed many links concerning yum repos & installs with no result. I have two other fc4 servers which update fine & have even copied the config files over to the problem server.

rpm -qi gives glibc-2.3.6. The orig was 2-3-5 and I've downloaded 2-5, common, headers, devel, kernelheaders to a folder, but cannot install it because of the current 2-3-6.

So, if I 'yum delete glibc', can I 'rpm --install glibc*' without crashing?


Thanks - Keith

 

[zeland]

You can force a downgrade, but I can't quite say if it will kill anything else.

rpm -ivh --force glib packages


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[Annihilannic]

I doubt you will be able to remove glibc and still have a running system.

Annihilannic.