On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:25:01PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > You have half of it. rpm should be statically linked to avoid this sort > of cul-de-sac. It's not like multople instances of it running are > going to be a frequent occurrence. If you've lost a critical library then you may well have other problems if you just ran a static rpm - such as the scripts. Normal users on being told there is a package file collision believe the package manager and don't randomly delete stuff breaking their system. Experts go and check the dependancy tree and then decide not to do it. > But with rpm not working I couldn't reinstall the library. Boot failed, > ssh/sshd failed -- I had to kluge with netcat and tar just to back up > my files. It was horrible. You boot the rescue CD and use rpm --root to do the reinstall of the package. If you aren't an expert you ask on the user list and get told how to do that. Asking would have received a fairly prompt answer. Folks who run rawhide all the time are pretty familiar with scenarios like "this glibc is bad" and getting out of them. Alan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
