Tarek Ghaleb wrote:
* On [30 Aug 2005 03:19 +0300] <turmeric2005@xxxxxxxx> wrote:rpm --root=${m} --initdb rpm --root=${m} *rpmI just noticed the above line doesn't have an -i as well! try: rpm -ivh --root=${m} *rpm I've done this at least a couple of times this week and it works using rpm version 4.4.2 export m=/mnt/mynewsystemroot echo $m # to check Then as root: install -d ${m}/var/lib/rpm rpm --root=${m} --initdb rpm -ivh --root=${m} *rpm and rpm -qa --root=${m} *rpm I think this should work. Tarek.
Fixed most of my problems, still got one more problem this is part of the output after running -ivh --root rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Triggername: No such file or directory rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Triggername: cannot sync: No such file or directory error: db4 error(2) from dbenv->close: No such file or directory _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
