How is one supposed to update to rawhide rpm?

[Eric Sandeen]

Mikko Huhtala wrote:
> I tried installing F11 Alpha (network install via FTP URL) without
> using the rawhide repo during installation. Updating to rawhide fails
> with tons of rpm/cpio errors. Trying to update only rpm itself on a
> freshly installed Alpha also fails (and corrupts the rpm db).
> 
> Then I tried again with the rawhide repo enabled. The installation
> finished, but I got a system with no rpm, bash or kernel. I could not
> coax the missing parts in by mounting the broken F11 partition on a
> working F10 system.
> 
> Should one wish to test rawhide, how would one install it?
> 
> Mikko
> 

For my stranded rawhide system, on the advice of folks in #fedora-devel,
I went to http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/rpm/4.6.0/8.fc11/
and manually grabbed those versions of rpm, rpm -Uvh'd them, and then
all was well.

-Eric