locales are not updated with glibc reinstall in RHEL 7.3

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The yum reinstall glibc-common command stopped working in RHEL 7.3 to update the list of installed locales.
  • When updating a rhel 7.2 container to 7.3, the update of glibc and glibc-common causes the locales to become unusable.

Environment

RHEL 7.3
glibc-2.7-157

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