[Gllug] basic rpm problem.

[A James Lewis]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Vincent AE Scott wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Richard Cohen wrote:
>
> > > I am using mandrake 7.2.  Any ideas/suggestions?  Anyone *thinking* of
> > > mentioning Debians superior package management implementation will get a
> > > free 'doze installation CD.
> >
> > How about Slackware's superior package management implementation? :-)
>
>
> tar?
> yeah, wicked.
>

Actually Slackware's package management might use tar to store the files
but it ISN'T just tar, you can install and remove packages, and it even
tracks files owned by multiple packages so it doesn't delete shared
files...

Not only that but it has pre/post install scripts etc stored in the tar
file....

Yet you can untar it into a directory and you don't keep getting errors
about what version of the package you're using like I do on RH.

>
> > Seriously, You need either RPM 4.something or 3.05 (or newer).
>
> as an aside, when i upgraded from 3 -> 4, it didnt quite work properly,
> and i ended up with a duff database, and had to do an --initdb and reload
> all packages to get the database and dependenices back.  but then again, i
> was using cooker, so i'm sure the official pkgs are much more reliable.
> as a precautionary note, you might want to back up the binaries and data
> first.
>
> # cd /; tar -cvvf /tmp/bak.tar `rpm -q -l rpm`
> # tar -cvvf /tmp/dat.tar /var/lib/rpm
>
> HTH,
> -v
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A. James Lewis (james at fsck.co.uk)
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