On Sunday 15 December 2002 03:57 am, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 18:53:19 -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I recently removed the RH8 rpms of rpm and replaced them with the 4.1 > > source files from rpm.org, in order to try to get my source version of > > > > Kpackage running. > > > > My problem is getting the source version to read the rpm database, as > > it does not know what packages are installed, and this is quite a > > mess, since rpm without its database just about useless. I understand > > that the database is kept in /var/lib/rpm. > > > > When I uninstalled rpm by rpm, in /var/lib a directory was saved as > > rpm.rpmsave. When I installed from source, it created a directory > > called /var/lib/rpm. > > > > I have tried changing /var/lib/rpm.rpmsave to /var/lib/rpm and rpm did > > not appear to read anything from there. I ended up copying all the files from /var/lib/rpm.rpmsave to /var/lib/rpm and recompiled rpm from scratch, and found that it now reads the database correctly. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
