Now, is it only me who will think that this is
REALLY STUPID ???
I also tried to get the sources to recompile but it
seems I don't have the right libs ..
I have a 7.0 machine. However, I also have to use a 6.2
since I am a developper (7.0 with its funky pseudo-compiler is kind of a
no-no for developping stable products IMHO)
and even if you get the thing to compile, it is not everybody around who has
glibc 2.2 installed on his machine so the distribution to customer gets a
little tricky.
Thanks for your help
Philippe
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael R. Jinks
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 2:42 PM
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Subject: Re: stupid question about upgrading rpm
I haven't been able to figure this out either. I think the only choices
are to compile from scratch, or to do something like what the system
install procedure does.
Using an RPM-4 enabled system, create a minimal Linux system on a
removable medium; boot from that medium on your RPM-3 box; mount your
hard drive's partitions (at least /, with /usr and /var on top of it --
say, root on /mnt/realroot, /usr on /mnt/realroot/usr, and /var on
/mnt/realroot/var) and then use the copy of rpm on your portable medium
to install a new copy of rpm onto the mounted system using options like
--root /mnt/realroot.
Sounds like an awful lot of trouble, and you have to have the
RPM4-enabled box to begin with (got a RH7 machine you can borrow for a
few hours...?), _and_ you have to be savvy enough to squash a bootable
Linux setup including the RPM binary onto some sort of portable medium,
_and_ you'll want to make sure your backups are up to date first in case
one of the rpm commands ends up screwing up your existing install. But
I can't think of any other way to do it. This was one of the main
reasons I upgraded to RH7, just got tired of the RPM errors for new
versions of packages and didn't feel like doing all of this hocus pocus.
:(
-m
Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
>
> Well,
>
> this is where the problem is : to install rpm-4.0*.rpm using
> rpm 3.* does not work. Basically it reports that my version
> of rpm (3.*) is not able to open the rpm-4.0.*.
>
> Now, this is the exact reason I am trying to upgrade my rpm.
> How can I break this circle ?
>
> Philippe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Kirchner
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 2:07 PM
> To: redhat
> Subject: Re: stupid question about upgrading rpm
>
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install the new rpm as the old one doesn't install
> > most of the new packages.
> >
> > So now I am trying to install the rpm for "rpm" and guess what :
> > I need the new rpm to install it :=(
> >
> > What is the right way to make the transition (I guess I could always
> > recompile ..)
>
> Probably would be best to install the version of RPM that came with your
> distro (or the latest version of it that you have that you know works)
>
> Then get the newest version of RPM and do an 'rpm -Fvh rpm-*.rpm' on it.
>
> This will upgrade your old one to the latest one. I think that will work.
>
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