Re: openssl upgrade

[Nikhil Datta <nikhild@xxxxxxx>]

> 1.    I did that but it did not let me upgrade. I want
> to upgrade to BIND 9.1.1 but that needs libcrypto.so.1
> so I need to upgrade to openssl-0.9.6. Now while
> upgrading that it says a hell lot of packages which
> use libcrypto.so.0 and they are all dependent on the
> package openssl-0.9.5a. What to do. Before also I came
> across a situation like this:

upgrading to openssl-0.9.6 should not break dependencies for older packages.
> 
> 2. I wanted to upgrade to glibc-2.2. While doing that
> it said that I need to upgrade glibc-common also and
> for upgrading glibc-common it said it needs glibc to
> be upgraded. This type of cyclic dependency is
> ridiculus. There has to be some way to upgrade after
> all.

put both on the command line : i.e. : 
rpm -Uvh glibc-XXX.rpm glibc-commonc-XXX.rpm

--nikk