[Server-devel] Revisor / yum odd error with f9 updates.newkey repo: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package glibc-2.8-3.i386

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Right now, revisor can build a pristine F9 installer CD but cannot
> build a F9 + updates installer CD.
> 
> The problem appears by merely enabling the additional repo in the
> stock F9 config files that ship with Revisor. It has also been
> reported elsewhere: https://fedorahosted.org/genome/ticket/28
> 
> The error is
>   Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package
> glibc-2.8-3.i386
> 
> even though the updates.newkey repo clearly has the full set of
> glibc-* packages at 2.8-8
> 

Fedora Unity has just released a Re-Spin of Fedora 9 + updates, and we 
have not seen this problem.

Nevertheless I dug through the code and found a little discrepancy, now 
having resolved the issue (in GIT).

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip