I do this often, very often.
please send to results of (ONLY if too long for list PM me)
pwd
id
mkdir -p /mnt/mynewsystemroot
stat /mnt/mynewsystemroot
rpm -r /mnt/mynewsystemroot -Uvh your.rpms
#if it fails repeat with
rpm -r /mnt/mynewsystemroot -Uvvh your.rpms
if you look at some older posts you will see copies of the script we use.
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jonas Geiregat wrote:
Tarek Ghaleb wrote:
That's it then. Try,
$ install -d /mnt/mynewsystemroot/var/lib/rpm
$ rpm --root=/mnt/mynewsystemroot/var/lib/rpm --initdb
and then install your rpms. This should work.
Tarek.
Ok this is what I tried:
export m=/mnt/mynewsystemroot
rm -rf ${m}
install -d ${m}
rpm --root=${m} --initdb
rpm --root=${m} *rpm
nothing has changed ..
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