shoehorning rpm onto a stripped system

["Jason Dusek" <jason s linux gmail com>]

hi,

i trashed my fedora 5 system in a spectacular way - i ran

  yum -y kernel-<version>. *

notice the extra space in between the version and the star - i now am
completely without packages! i'm thinking the best thing to do is get
rpm back on the system and then put yum on (python survived the whole
mess, suprisingly).

when i simply copied the rpm binary from another fedora system to
another, however, i run into a bunch of library dependency problems -
some of the libraries got trashed in the process. after tracking them
down by hand for awhile, i have thrown in the towel. i would like to
compile a statically linked version of rpm. how do it do it? i don't
know enough about the gnu autoconf family of tools to even hazard a
guess.

thanks for your help.

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_jsn