https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465662 Summary: glibc and glibc-devel packages for i586 and i686 have different version numbers Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mh@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de CC: mh@novell.com Found By: --- Currently glibc and glibc-devel have differing version numbers on i586 and i686. These are the packages on the DVD: i586/glibc-2.9-2.8.i586.rpm i586/glibc-devel-2.9-2.8.i586.rpm i686/glibc-2.9-2.3.i686.rpm i686/glibc-devel-2.9-2.3.i686.rpm After an installation on a current 32-bit system most likely the i686 variant gets installed; when one uses a "non-mainstream" update management (such as apt-get), one will be faced with an "update" from glibc-2.9-2.3.i686 to glibc-2.9-2.8.i585, just because the version number is higher. Architectural "compatible" packages should have identical version numbers, shouldn't they? I know this cannot be fixed on the media anymore, but we should release an updated/rebuilt patch to bring glibc.i686 to the same version like on i585. It might also be possible, that glibc.i686 hasn't been rebuilt after a "final" patch had been added to the sources and just the i586 variant got rebuilt... This has been discussed on the opensuse-security mailing list, see <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security/2009-01/msg00009.html> -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.