Hi

it's no needs.
Please read glibc's FAQ  which has glibc source

I have here also at

 ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/users/kfukui/glibc-2.2.x-room/RPMS/FAQ.glibc-2.2.3

All I saw here was for installing after building from source code.  I did not
see anything about installing using a package manager.

Perhaps my use of "ldconfig -v; sync; sync; shutdown -r now" comes from the
days when rpm was not always staticaly linked with libc?

What I recommend won't hurt and can certainly help flush older shared
libraries out of memory.

It is of-course Keith's choice but I still recommend it.

Kevin

(ps. you might want to check out RedHat's instructions for using rpm to
upgrade glibc, that used to be on their site.  That is what I based my
procedure on a long time ago (around mklinux rel 1).

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