Dear Günther,
I understood that these special installation instructions ("--force --nodeps" or the "--oldpackage) where mentioned because of a version downgrade of openssh. As far as I know SuSE provided newer openssh packages but then decided to patch the old ones. That's why I think that I do not need these instructions. If I would use them they would maybe suppress the error message, nevertheless it is the best for me to update glibc to 2.2.4 too, as this was also a security update that I missed.
SuSE-7.3 comes with a glibc-2.2.4, no 2.2.2.
What you have is not a clean 7.3 installation, it more looks like a 7.2
(which came with 2.2.2 glibc).
One thing is fore sure: There is no way that somebody missed a glibc
version update. There won't ever be such thing, at least in the next two
or three years. Even if somebody claims that two glibc versions are binary
compatible, there might be enough reasons to disbelieve this claim.
Thanks,
Roman.
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