Re: How to reinstall rpm - solved I think

[Craig White <craigwhite azapple com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:46, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Craig White wrote :
> 
> > OK - I have no problem booting from rescue disk and chrooting to the
> > hard drive root directory but the problem that I don't get ...
> > 
> > how do you install rpm when you can't run rpm?
> > 
> > which rpm
> > 
> > nowhere in path...
> > 
> > reinstall the rpm package? How?
> 
> I guess you could try :
> - Copying the "rpm2cpio" binary from another machine
> - Copying the rpm package locally
> - Running something like :
>   cd /
>   rpm2cpio /path/to/rpm-4.*.rpm | cpio -dimv
> 
> Then you could clean up what you just did (in case it's a different version
> of rpm, mainly) :
> rpm -e --justdb --nodeps rpm
> rpm -Uvh /path/to/rpm-4.*.rpm
> 
> YMMV...
> Matthias
----
Dude - you are the best...

rpm -ql rpm-4.0.4-7x.18

scp -r root some_other_host_with_same_version:/var/lib/rpm /var/lib/
scp root some_other_host_with_same_version:/usr/bin/gendiff /usr/bin/
scp root some_other_host_with_same_version:/usr/bin/rpm* /usr/bin/rpm*
scp root some_other_host_with_same_version:/usr/lib/librpm* /usr/lib/
scp -r root some_other_host_with_same_version:/etc/rpm /etc/lib/
scp -r root some_other_host_with_same_version:/usr/share/doc/rpm*
/usr/share/doc/

Thanks,

Craig