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

[Jack Neely]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:35:53AM -0400, James Antill wrote:
> 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?

It looks pretty normal.  /sbin/ldconfig included.  I did use --plugins
to enable RHN.

    http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/repoquery.out

Jack

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