 | | | How to query the package owning the file? (no package manger installed) | How to query the package owning the file? (no package manger installed) 2005-07-15 - By Ed Wilts
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:00:46AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
> I don't know how hard it is to use rpm or similar to uninstall
> itself, but seems like there must be some way (you can always remove the
> binaries directly if rpm won't let you uninstall itself, and surely you
> can force-remove it somehow -- I'm not going to test it out, though).
I haven't tried it recently, but you can rpm -e rpm. I had to do it
once when I had a corrupted rpm binary. Back then, rpm was statically
linked and I just copied the rpm binary from another system and did an
rpm -i again. This is not something I want to test on a production
system :-)
> I think the question was intended to test the applicant's knowledge of
> how the system itself works, and her / his ability to deal with less
> than optimal / unexpected circumstances. Sure - maybe that particular
> scenario is unlikely, but I have definitely seen cases where a package
> management system of one sort or another fails, either because the
> program is messed up, system got rooted, the package db is corrupt, etc.
> etc.
My personal guess is that they were looking for more information
surrounding the management of tarball-installed packages. We'll never
know unless the OP gets the job and talks to the interviewer again.
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