[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

[Connie Sieh]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

> 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.

I installed this respin and then tried to rebuild fedora 9 + updates on 
this respin and got this glibc error.

>
> Nevertheless I dug through the code and found a little discrepancy, now 
> having resolved the issue (in GIT).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
> -kanarip
>
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-Connie Sieh
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