On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Scot Mc Pherson wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2004 08:53 am, James Olin Oden wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Scot Mc Pherson wrote: > > > How does one upgrade RPM or GLIBC or other runtime dependency while using > > > RPM to do it? > > > > With rpm (-;. For instance, when I am hacking away at RPM, and I have > > decided what I have done should be OK, on my test system, I'lll do: > > > > rpm -Uvh rpm-$ver-$rel.i386.rpm rpm-devel-$ver-$rel.i386.rpm > > rpm-build-$ver-$rel.i386.rpm popt-$ver2-$rel.i386.rpm > > > > replacing the $ver, $ver1, and $rel with real versions and realeas. > > > > Cheers...james > > You don't have any issues with the software locking up because runtime libs > a$ren't available between uninstallation and installation? Nope. I upgrade rpm quite a bit, both in production and non-production environments, and have not seen this issue. Now I have stupidly tried to upgrade it one time before thoughrly testing a patch, and had a borked system (-; Oh, wait I just noticed your comment "uninstallation and installation"; that is the point you are misunderstanding perhaps. RPM when it does an upgrade, first installs the new software, and then erases only the files from the old software that did not belong to the new package. Also, as long as rpm stays resident in memory the entire time, any libraries it is using will remain the old versions until it exits. > Last time I tried this was with 4.1, perhaps things have changed? I need to > try it I guess. Of course that means I have rpm-4.1 running on this system > and have built rpms and the runtime chain for rpm-4.3.2 and want to upgrade > using rpm and not just $ make install > The other way you could do this, if there was a problem with that version of rpm (don't know if there was) is boot from RH/Fedora media and go into rescue mode. Once in there you can install your new rpm using the rpm that is on the media (will need to use the --root option with rpm). Cheers...james _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
