On 3/30/06, Bob Tennent <rdtennent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to use rpm from the 1st install CD of FC4. I'm trying to > re-install glibc packages that didn't get installed properly leaving the > system without ld. I've tried the following: > > rpm -U --replacepkgs --root /mnt/sysimage glibc* > > and am getting > > error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000 > > I've tried adding --dbpath /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm but rpm isn't > recognizing that option. What should I do? > Just a note certain options of rpm running in the installer environment do not work. These are typically options defined by the popt config that ships with rpm (such as --dbpath). If you look at this config on an installed system you will usually see that it is defining some macro (certainly this is the case with --dbpath). So for instance you would replace --dbpath with "--define _dbpath /mnt/sysimage/usr/lib/rpm' as seen from the file /usr/lib/rpmpopt-$ver. I don't know if this will solve your specific problem, but its definately something to know about when running rpm directly in the anaconda environment. Cheers...james _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
