[Gllug] basic rpm problem.

[Vincent AE Scott]

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.


> 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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