[ale] Why so many updates to RedHat?

[Michael Hirsch]

Thanks to everyone who pointed out that I had a RH 7.2 system.  In fact,
I do have a 7.3 system but I managed to overwrite my rpm database with
the database of a 7.2 system.  (Don't ask how--I'm not positive myself.)

I don't think there is any way for me to figure out how to rebuild my
rpm DB--but I'm open to suggestion.  I "upgraded" all my rpms so that
every rpm the DB thinks I have is correct, but there are a lot that I
have installed that it doesn't know about.  I'm not sure what my best
approach is, here.

But at least I don't feel like I'm going crazy any more.

--Michael

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 16:52, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 16:08, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > On 9 Jul 2002, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > 
> > > You are correct.  The errata page doesn't mention most of those files. 
> > > But when I run up2date -l this is what I get (see below).  I don't
> > > believe I have messed with up2date at all.  I do point to some
> > > non-standard apt-get servers, but I use the redhat up2date untouched. 
> > > This is an awful lot, though I confess much less than 400.  It is more
> > > like 100 updated packages.
> > 
> > You've broken something! ;-)
> 
> I'm prepared to believe that.  :-(
> > 
> > > arts                                    2.2.2          2
> > 
> > arts-1.0.0-4 on a fully up2date'd Red Hat Linux 7.3 system
> > 
> > > dump                                    0.4b25         1.72.0
> > 
> > Look at the release:  1.72
> > 
> > That's an errata for Red Hat Linux 7.2
> > 
> > > e2fsprogs                               1.26           1.72
> > > e2fsprogs-devel                         1.26           1.72
> > 
> > ditto
> > 
> > > glibc                                   2.2.4          24
> > > glibc-common                            2.2.4          24
> > > glibc-devel                             2.2.4          24
> > 
> > RH 7.3 uses glibc-2.2.5.  Again, these are all 7.2.
> > 
> > Check /etc/redhat-release.  I think you'll find that your box is 7.2, not 
> > 7.3.
> 
> And yet:
> 
> [1001] hirsch>cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
> [1002] hirsch>
> 
> ???
> 
> Aha!  I just looked in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid and found this:
> 
> <member>
> <name>description</name>
> <value><string>Red Hat Linux, release 7.3, running on
> i686</string></value>
> </member>
> <member>
> <name>os_release</name>
> <value><string>7.2</string></value>
> </member>
> 
> So I seem to think I'm 7.3, but I'm really 7.2.  I wonder how that
> happened?
> 
> Thanks for putting me on the right track.
> 
> --Michael
> 
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