On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 17:29 +0000, John Burrell wrote: > I am trying to convert a non-rpm based machine to an rpm based one. As others have said, this is a bad idea. It's like trying to convert an Ubuntu system into a Fedora ... they just aren't the same. If you only have this one machine, and you need to reinstall it but keep all the data that's on it ... your best bet is probably to do something like: 1. Boot into a rescue CD. 2. mkdir /old-machine; mv /* /old-machine 3. Reboot and reinstall (but make sure you tell it not to format the disk). 4. Post install, copy the things you need from /old-machine to configure the new one. > I installed rpm-4.8.0 from source and then built rpm-4.8.0-1.i386.rpm > and then tried to install it. The problem is you need to install a lot of the core packages at once, as they'll require each other. In theory if you setup yum, you could do something like: yum install /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/bin/* /usr/bins/* ...but again, depending on what the original distribution looks like you are going to have a mix of old bits from the old OS which may interact badly with your new one. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
