On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:34:20AM -0500, Jeff Johnson mentioned: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:29:01PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote: > > This has been done, and that's how I was able to do the install of > > various packages, RPM included. However, once all the packages are > > installed, rpm doesn't work inside the chrooted environment, as it doesn't > > seem to understand the RPM db3 formatted database. > What does rpm --showrc say when run in the chroot? Rather less than when run in the full OS... > You're gonna need /usr/lib/rpm/macros and other configuration in the chroot. I had a quick look, and it seemed that the chroot rpm installation was considerably smaller than I thought. Macros and rpmrc were not there. A reinstall fixed it. Yeah! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. > You might also look at /usr/lib/rpm/trpm. I run that script daily while > testing rpm installs into a chroot. How does one use this ? "trpm -Uvh package.rpm --root /tmp/chroot" ? John -- _______________________________________ John Looney Chief Scientist a n t e f a c t o t: +353 1 8586004 www.antefacto.com f: +353 1 8586014
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