From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:55:43 -0800 Received: from boco.fee.vutbr.cz ([147.229.9.11]:44305 "EHLO boco.fee.vutbr.cz") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:55:29 -0800 Received: from fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz (fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz [147.229.9.16]) by boco.fee.vutbr.cz (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f29ItJt60238 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:55:20 +0100 (CET) Received: (from xjezda00@localhost) by fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f29It5H34487; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:55:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:55:05 +0100 From: David Jez To: Carsten Langgaard Cc: ppopov@pacbell.net, Pete Popov , Ralf Baechle , David Jez , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: redhat 7.0 Message-ID: <20010309195505.C34241@stud.fee.vutbr.cz> References: <3A901B3F.ADADC601@pacbell.net> <20010220074903.A68652@stud.fee.vutbr.cz> <20010220215616.F2086@bacchus.dhis.org> <3A930AB3.3AEAE5BF@mvista.com> <3AA5FA06.D9D5277@mips.com> <3AA63113.45430090@pacbell.net> <3AA76955.2819476F@mips.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AA76955.2819476F@mips.com>; from carstenl@mips.com on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:13:25PM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing Hi Carsten, try this: 1. install package rpm-3.0.5 from last rh-6.2 updates 2. then install package rpm-4.0.4 this may will be OK, because rpm-3.0.5 know rpm-4 packages format. Try read this, but I'm afraid you will not understand: http://www.linux.cz/lists/archive/linux/101281.html good luck Dave > Please Ralf, could you help me here. > I did the same as Pete describe below, and I got the same result. > When I tried "rpm --rebuilddb" it fails because it couldn't find some libraries. > The rpm-tarball contains a statically linked rpm binary, but rpmdb is dynamically > linked, could you please provide me with a statically linked rpmdb binary, that would > be great. > > > Did you managed to get through the installation of the RedHat 7.0 packages ? > > > I would like to do something similar. > > > > > > > Has anyone tried installing 7.0 that's on oss.sgi.com? The problem I'm > > > > > > > running into is that after I netboot and mount simple-0.2b as the root > > > > > > > fs, and install the rpm-4.0 tarball, rpm doesn't work with the > > > > > > > libraries, or lack of, of that root fs. It looks like I need an fs with > > > > > > > a working rpm-4.0, so that I can mount my second disk somewhere and > > > > > > > install the 7.0 packages. Any suggestions? > > > > > > Yes, > > > > > > If you download rpm-3.0 (I'm not sure, try get newer version) you'll should > > > > > > be able to work with rpm 4 packages. -- ------------------------------------------------------- David "Dave" Jez Brno, CZ, Europe E-mail: dave.jez@seznam.cz PGP key: finger xjezda00@fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz ---------=[ ~EOF ]=------------------------------------