Re: rpm --root

[Allen Wayne Best <linux-rpm atoka-software com>]

Jeff:

thanks so much for your assistance. I, or rather, the computer, is back up and 
running. i did an update and told anaconda tht i wanted to review/select the 
programs to install. this may have not worked had i not had 
kernel-2.4.20-6Boot installed. i am now chasing down the other problems i had 
before the install of the security updates. needless to say, i am again a 
happy geek with bugs in my smile, thanks to your kind suggestions.

On Sunday 21 September 2003 14:35, Jeff Johnson pronounced:
> Allen Wayne Best wrote:
> >On Sunday 21 September 2003 14:10, Jeff Johnson pronounced:
> >>Allen Wayne Best wrote:
> >>>hi all:
> >>>
> >>>can anyone affirm that 'rpm --root /mnt/sysimage' will do what i think
> >>> the man page is saying it will do: install the rpms in the system
> >>> directories starting at /mnt/sysimage  and not in the current /.
> >>
> >>Yes, that's --root behavior.
> >>
> >>>a rh9 installation went south, way south, after appling all the current
> >>>rh9 updates. now is get a segmentation fault when i do a chroot
> >>>/mnt/sysimage, and get same when i try to boot the system. as by one on
> >>>information, the same was happening during ( and not before) the rpm
> >>> -Fuh of the the updates.
> >>>
> >>>any input is greatly appreciated. i really don't want to hose the system
> >>>worse! :)
> >>
> >>Anaconda might be easiest. Rename /var/lib/rpm, and do minimal install,
> >>but don't remake a file system
> >>on your existing partitions.  Once you're booted, replace /var/lib/rpm,
> >>and use -Va to figger what's
> >>changed.
> >>
> >>73 de Jeff
> >
> >if i understand you correctly,
> >
> >mv /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/old.rpm (the entire directory!)
> >install as if fresh install
> >install the least necessary
> >don't install a file system
> >(this part i am not following you on... could you explain a bit more??)
>
> If you run mkfs on a partition, everything will be lost.
>
> Not running mkfs will replace files from the minimal set of pkgs,
> leaving everything
> else intact.
>
> If you don't understand this, you're probably better off installing
> manually using --root.
>
> That will work too, with fewer side effects and surprises.
>
> 73 de Jeff
>
>
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regards,
allen wayne best, esq
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"my rambler will go from 0 to 105"
Current date: 58:46:19::263:2003

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