seth vidal wrote:
>>This package has a really odd dependency problem, trying a
`yum update`
>>fails with an error, 'Package libselinux needs glibc >, this is not
>>availible.' Given that I'm fairly certain an unversioned release of
>>glibc isn't going to happen, I'm assuming this is a packaging problem...
>>
>>
>>
>
>More likely a yum problem since rpm reports more sensibly:
>
> # rpm -Fvh libselinux-1.11-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
> glibc > 2.3.4 is needed by libselinux-1.11-1
>
how is this a yum problem? You have a package that requires something
that doesn't exist. And that's a yum problem?
No, the yum problem is that it didn't report the version number of glibc
required. Compare the above to this:
[root@starlifter headers]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1.91 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
....Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package libselinux needs glibc >, this is not available.
[root@starlifter headers]#
Nathan.