[Yum] glibc update, missing /sbin/ldconfig requirement

[James Antill]

Jack Neely <jjneely at ncsu.edu> writes:

> Folks,
>
> Red Hat recently released a new glibc version for RHEL 5.  My i386
> machines have updated normally, but all of my x86_64 machines will not
> update.  We are running glibc 2.5-81.el5_8.2 and trying to upgrade to
> 2.5-81.el5_8.4 and Yum complains that it cannot find /sbin/ldconfig for
> all of the packages that require it.
>
> Here is the Yum error log:
>
>     http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/yum.out
>
> A yum -d5 update glibc log is here:
>
>     http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/yum.out.xz
>
> I don't see anything wrong with the new glibc packages.  rpmdiff shows
> that there aren't many changes.  This is the RHEL 5 version of yum
> (yum-3.2.22-39.el5).  Any insights as to what has gone wrong?

 All the above data makes it look like yum thinks the new glibc
package aren't providing a lot of the filedeps that previous versions
were.

 What does "repoquery -ql glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.4" say?

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org