rpm & glibc catch22

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:33:14 -0800 "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > A week ago I upgraded glibc from 2.2.5 to 2.3.2, without any problems.
> > I forgot at the time that glibc upgrades tend to break rpm.
>
> Words fail me.  Is RPM the BSOD of the linux world?

thanks for your profound wisdom.  Why are you wasting your apparent
talents on computer issues when the world has so many bigger problems.

BTW, rpm isn't the only thing that can break when upgrading glibc.  bzip2
and sed can also break.  Do you have any deep insight to offer on those
two?

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