Jason Dusek wrote : > i trashed my fedora 5 system in a spectacular way - i ran > > yum -y kernel-<version>. * > > notice the extra space in between the version and the star - i now am > completely without packages! i'm thinking the best thing to do is get > rpm back on the system and then put yum on (python survived the whole > mess, suprisingly). > > when i simply copied the rpm binary from another fedora system to > another, however, i run into a bunch of library dependency problems - > some of the libraries got trashed in the process. after tracking them > down by hand for awhile, i have thrown in the towel. i would like to > compile a statically linked version of rpm. how do it do it? i don't > know enough about the gnu autoconf family of tools to even hazard a > guess. Assuming you still have some basic things working (ssh and/or rpm2cpio), the easiest might be to copy over the missing libraries from another FC5 system until you get rpm and yum working again, or to go to "/" and "brute force" extract binary packages there (using rpm2cpio) until you get rpm working again, and can install them cleanly again. The other option is to backup all of the important data (/etc, /home, /var and possibly /usr/local, usually) and reinstall the system. Might be quicker, and will definitely be cleaner! Remember to keep your yum.log file so that you can easily extract the list of packages that got removed so that you know what you need to reinstall. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 5.90 (Test) - Linux kernel 2.6.17-1.2293_FC6 Load : 0.13 0.24 0.26 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
