[CLUE-Tech] Re: Red Hat 9 & glibc

[Angelo Bertolli]

apt-get has worked fine for me on RH for upgrading things, including glibc

David Anselmi wrote:

> Mike Staver wrote:
>
>> Yes, even though I was a retard and was trying to update those other 
>> RPMs on the wrong version of a system, I have never been able to 
>> actually upgrade glibc on any install I have ever tried it on.
>
>
> I don't have a very high opinion of RH, but it would seem that rpm is 
> too low level a tool to do this.  Maybe if you could check and recheck 
> dependencies until you were sure nothing would fail...
>
> But apt handles this easily on Debian and I hear that it runs on RH.  
> I would expect up2date to do it too, as well as yum (but if they don't 
> I'd pitch them).
>
> Dave
>
>
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