Re: RPM upgrade problem

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:43:02PM -0400, Matthew R. MacIntyre wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi, 
> 
> Jeff Johnson wrote:
>  
> Jeff> Yup, rpm segfaults when it gets bad data from the database. The 
> Jeff> more interesting question is how the data got there, if you've 
> Jeff> used Ximian, that's your answer. 
>  
> Well, I have in the past, but that stuff has been gone for awhile. 
> But that just might be the answer! 
>  
> Jeff> Meanwhile, most of the segfaults are fixed in rpm-4.0.3-0.57 
> Jeff> from 
> Jeff>   ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.3 
> Jeff> Installing that, and doing --rebuilddb, detects and removes bad 
> Jeff> headers. 
>  
> All righty.  I gave that a try, but it won't install, because an rpm 
> -Uvh of the packages segfaults, with the same symptoms described in 
> the first message.  Is there a way to get around this to get the newer
> version of rpm installed? 

Sure. Assuming all 5 rpm packages are in /var/tmp, do
	cd /var/tmp
	mkdir xxx
	cd xxx
	for i in ../{rpm,popt}-*.rpm ; do
	   rpm2cpio $i | cpio -dim
	done
	./bin/rpm -Uvh ../{rpm,popt}-*.rpm

Next, do
	rpm --rebuilddb		# <- if this segfaults, do a bugzilla report
and finally
	rpm --rebuilddb		# just to make sure everything is AOK

73 de Jeff

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