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
