diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml
index ed2912f40..cb676fd4b 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml
@@ -54,10 +54,6 @@
       Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on an LFS system.</para>
     </note>
 
-    <para>First fix a minor problem when installing the tzselect script:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/\\$$(pwd)/`pwd`/' timezone/Makefile</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>Some of the Glibc programs use non-FHS compilant
     <filename class="directory">/var/db</filename> directory to store
     their runtime data. Apply the following patch to make such programs
@@ -112,12 +108,11 @@ cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
     <para>Generally a few tests do not pass, but you can generally ignore
     any of the test failures listed below. Now test the build results:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check 2&gt;&amp;1 | tee glibc-check-log
-grep Error glibc-check-log</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>You will probably see an expected (ignored) failure in the
+    <para><!--You will probably see an expected (ignored) failure in the
     <emphasis>posix/annexc</emphasis> and
-    <emphasis>conform/run-conformtest</emphasis> tests.  In addition the Glibc
+    <emphasis>conform/run-conformtest</emphasis> tests.  In addition t-->The Glibc
     test suite is somewhat dependent on the host system.  This is a list of the
     most common issues:</para>
 
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 5b6041b83..72e92ac70 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
 <!ENTITY glibc-home "&gnu-software;libc/">
 <!ENTITY glibc-ch5-du "594 MB">
 <!ENTITY glibc-ch5-sbu "4.7 SBU">
-<!ENTITY glibc-ch6-du "922 MB">
+<!ENTITY glibc-ch6-du "979 MB">
 <!ENTITY glibc-ch6-sbu "17.1 SBU">
 
 <!ENTITY gmp-version "6.0.0a">