Re: shoehorning rpm onto a stripped system

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:54 AM, Jason Dusek wrote:

> 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.

/bin/rpm in rpm-4.4.3 and later is statically linked again.

There's a tarball at
    http://wraptastic.org/pub/rpm-4.4.x/rpm-4.4.6.tar.gz

Meanwhile, see if /usr/lib/rpm/rpmi is present, that executable is  
statically linked
copy of /bin/rpm in rpm-4.4.2.

73 de Jeff