What I do to get things running on a system without rpm is (redhat 9):
start with the following files from these rpms.
bzip2-libs-1.0.2-8.i386.rpm
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.2
elfutils-libelf-0.76-3.i386.rpm
/usr/lib/libelf-0.76.so
/usr/lib/libelf.so.1
glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
(pretty much everything except documentation)
popt-1.8-0.69.i386.rpm
(pretty much everything except documentation)
rpm-4.2-1.i386.rpm
(pretty much everything except documentation)
I have a script that uses rpm2cpio to exract all these files into 1 tarball.
This is only done once, and uploaded somewhere where the machines can
download it.
Then, you just untar the tar ball and you can run rpm chrooted from that
directory - which is then enough to:
rpm --initdb
rpm -i python, rpm, yum, any dependencies
Then, you can run yum groupinstall and its downhill from there. :)
Of course, if your boot/live cd has rpm, this is much easier.
Aaron
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 04:49 pm, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:47 -0500, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 May 2004, seth vidal wrote:
> > > chroot into the dir and look to see what you see when you run 'id rpm'
> >
> > + id rpm
> > id: rpm: No such user
> >
> > I don't know what package creates the rpm user.
>
> in the chroot do you have /etc/passwd?
>
> what does /etc/nsswitch.conf say in the chroot?
>
> the package rpm makes the rpm users
>
> -sv
>
>
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