I've updated CentOS 4.0 to 4.1 on several machines (some desktops, some
servers). However on my laptop, update is failing with following error
just after headers are downloaded:
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.3.4-2 for package: glibc
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.3.4-2 is needed by package glibc
My CentOS.repo is a standard one, as distributed with CentOS. I don't
have any additional repos defined on my laptop. I attempted to clear
yum cache (rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*). Rerun yum update, and got the same
error again.
Looking at the /var/cache/yum/base/headers, I see that yum downloaded
headers for gblic-common, glibc-devel, and glibc-headers, but not for
glibc. Seems as if yum did not considered base glibc package to be due
for update. Running rpm -q glibc, shows that currently installed
version of glibc is 2.3.4-2 (and all the other currently installed glibc
packages are at the same version level).
I don't remember doing anything fancy on that laptop that could have
triggered this problem. Basically, it was normal install (desktop+devel
packages mostly), and after that it was regulary updated from cron.
Of course, as a workaround I could download glibc and related packages
and update it by hand, and than rerun yum update to get all other
updates from 4.1. But, I though it would be more fun if anybody could
give me hint or two why yum failed to update this particular system.
