 | | | How to reinstall rpm | How to reinstall rpm 2003-12-04 - By Craig White
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On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 10:09, William Hooper wrote:
>
> Craig White said:
> > ----
> > OK - I have no problem booting from rescue disk and chrooting to the
> > hard drive root directory but the problem that I don't get ...
> >
> > how do you install rpm when you can't run rpm?
> >
> > which rpm
> >
> > nowhere in path...
> >
> > reinstall the rpm package? How?
> >
>
> Doesn't the rescue version of RPM support the "--root" switch?
>
> --root DIRECTORY
> Use the system rooted at DIRECTORY for all opera-
> tions. Note that this means the database will be
> read or modified under DIRECTORY and any %pre or
> %post scriptlet(s) are run after a chroot(2) to
> DIRECTORY.
>
> This should be fairly simmilar to repairing the issue with RH9 and the
> wrong glibc (which causes RPM to segfault). I used to know the "official"
> page for it, but I can't find it, but it is in bugzilla:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=102569
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seems to me that you are correct but seeing as how problem is solved -
the next challenge awaits more poor hardware choices or another weary
week of working too many hours and stupid pet tricks such as rpm -e
rpm-4 (See http://rpm-4.ora-code.com).0.4-7x or
rm -fr * <while_the_ls_I_am_looking_at_doesn't_mean_that_my_pwd\
_isn't_/_or_/home_or_something_nearly_as_stupid>
thanks for showing me another way.
Craig
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