Re: bootstrapping a base system using RPM

[Harri Haataja <harri haataja cs helsinki fi>]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 04:06:46AM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 02:34, Rob van der Heij wrote:
> > If you do those first packages in one rpm -U command then RPM
> > handles most catch-22's within that set
> 
> That's what I that - those six that I mentioned should provide
> everything that they each need. But I *just* did this - and rpm
> (version 4.1 built from scratch) complained about not being able to
> open Provides or something like that - I guess because there were _no_
> rpm's installed that part of the database didn't exist. Once I
> installed one rpm - I could do the rest that way.

If you started blank, did you do rpm --initdb to create the db's?

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