[Etherboot-developers] Re: [Etherboot-users] RH7 glibc update

[Richard J. <rj...@im...>]

Far as I know there was only one release of RH7, I s'pose there could be 
a SP1 or some such, but that's just silly.
Anyway, rpm -Uhv --force --nodeps <rpm> will install every RPM I've come 
across. let me know how that works.

Marty Connor wrote:

> So I'm about this '' close to chucking RH7 and using another distribution 
> to demo at LinuxWorld Expo.
> 
> I just installed a virgin copy of RH7 on a machine and started to apply 
> all the package updates, and it now tells me that it can't update glibc 
> because I don't have the correct previous version.  I've tried --force 
> and other flags, but it won't do the upgrade.
> 
> I suspect that the version on the RH7 CD is too old to upgrade to the one 
> they have on their FTP site, but the intermediate versions were buggy so 
> they seem to have deleted them from their web site.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?  Progeny (www.progeny.com) is looking might 
> good about now...