[NTLUG:Discuss] Updating RH 9 via sudo?

[NTLUG]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 10:48, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:08:01 -0500, NTLUG wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone installed RH9 recently?  The reason I ask is that I am trying
> > to track down what may be a bug in the latest glibc update or sudo.
> > 
> > 1) installed RH9 fresh
> > 2) configure sudo
> > 3) download all the current RPM packages (never use up2date)
> > 4) using sudo installing all the packages.  When the glibc package
> > updates it fails, leaving the system unusable...
> 
> just a note on this... I trashed a new system doing a manual 
> update ( luckily, I had already backed up my / partition and
> had /root2 ready to go ). BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD things 
> happen if you try and update the i386 glibc package on a i686
> box. Are you 110% sure that you updated the right glibc rpm 
> on your system. 
> 
I have never seen a situation where the i686 was required, as all it did
was include optimized support for the i686 processors.  I will keep that
in mind when I am doing the install tonight to see if that makes a
difference (the machine is an Athlon, but the only Athlon optimized code
they have is the Athlon version of the kernel.)

-- 
Woody

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do we need Gates and Windows?