[Yum] glibc conflict question

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 15:10 -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> I have recently upgraded glibc, glibc-common and glibc-headers
> from version 2.4-8 to 2.4.90-13, having run
> yum check-update and finding these on the output.
> 
> However a consequence was that gcc would no longer work
> properly, failing at the loader (linker) stage.
> 
> The reason appears to be that glibc-devel, which is normally
> used by gcc, does not yet seem to have been upgraded to
> 2.4.90-13, so there is a conflict, which was not detected by
> yum.
> 

There's no explicit conflict listed in the package. How would yum be
able to know about it?


> Is there a convenient way to UNDO the updating, i.e., to
> re-install version 2.4-8 for the glibc* packages already
> installed on my machine?  (This would be the equivalent of
> rpm -Uvh --oldpackage glibc-2.4-8....rpm etc.)

and that would be the way to do it.

-sv