glibc update on ppc32/fc6 fubar?

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 20:22 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Ok. I finally found the time to do a bunch of re-installs and tracked
> down the problem. 
> 
> This box is a old surplus g4, and the cmos (PRAM?) battery is dead as a
> doornail. So, powering up it has the time as being: 
> 
> Thu Dec 31 17:45:43 MST 1903
> 
> If I do a update of glibc without setting the correct time, it blows up
> in the manner I have seen. ie, /etc/ld-2.5.so gets blown away and the
> machine is dead in the water. ;) 

Excellent work; thanks.

> So, it's a bug, but a weird one. Do you still want me to file a bug? 
> Against what? 

Against RPM, I suppose, if the files are just plain missing. Does it
also happen when you upgrade the glibc package using 'rpm -Uhv ...'?

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dwmw2