rpm & glibc catch22

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, M.W. Chang wrote:
> If I upgrade the glibc in my old COL 3.1, I would encounter the same
> problem, right? I would also need to re-compile if not upgrade the RPM?

yup

> can rpm 4.x convert or handle the rpm database created by rpm 4.0.6?

I think so, but i'm honestly not sure.  I'm also not 100% certain that
rpm-4.x isn't backwards compatible with rpm-3.x, but I seem to remember
reading somewhere that it wasn't.

>
> > 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.  So today I
> > was pleasantly reminded of that fact when I attempted to rebuild a SRPM,
> > and rpm just segfaulted.
>
>

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