From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 04:31:34 -0800 Received: from u-18-20.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.20.18]:30960 "EHLO dea.waldorf-gmbh.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 04:31:11 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1L7COU07832; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:12:24 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:12:24 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Pete Popov Cc: David Jez , ppopov@pacbell.net, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: redhat 7.0 Message-ID: <20010221081224.A7767@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <3A901B3F.ADADC601@pacbell.net> <20010220074903.A68652@stud.fee.vutbr.cz> <20010220215616.F2086@bacchus.dhis.org> <3A930AB3.3AEAE5BF@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A930AB3.3AEAE5BF@mvista.com>; from ppopov@mvista.com on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:24:19PM -0800 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:24:19PM -0800, Pete Popov wrote: > > Oss has a tarball with statically linked rpm 4 binaries. Use that to > > convert your rpm database and then install the rpm 4 rpm package for real. > > I tried that; "rpm --rebuilddb" failed because it couldn't find some > library. I'll try again. Hmm... I know I went through the procedure when I upgraded posix0 from 5.1 to 7.0, so it's definately to get to work even though it definately was hairy beyond Joe Average Sysadmin's skills. Maybe you'll also have to dump a copy of glibc into the to-be updates system or use the --root option. Somebody will have to figure out a reasonably easy to follow and safe procedure here. Ralf