Re: RPM replacement woes

2002-12-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 15 December 2002 03:57 am, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 18:53:19 -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I recently removed the RH8 rpms of rpm and replaced them with the 4.1 > > source files from rpm.org, in order to try to get

Re: RPM replacement woes

2002-12-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 18:53:19 -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I recently removed the RH8 rpms of rpm and replaced them with the 4.1 > source files from rpm.org, in order to try to get my source version of > > Kpackage running. > > My problem is gettin

Re: RPM replacement woes

2002-12-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 14 December 2002 07:05 pm, Joe Klemmer wrote: > Probably would have been better to build the 4.1 rpm from source then > use the original rpm to upgrade the new rpm. what's done is done. does anyone have any ideas that could be moved forward? Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA

Re: RPM replacement woes

2002-12-14 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 21:53, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I recently removed the RH8 rpms of rpm and replaced them with the 4.1 > source files from rpm.org, in order to try to get my source version of > Kpackage running. [...] > What do I need to do to get rpm to read the old database? Probab

RPM replacement woes

2002-12-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
I recently removed the RH8 rpms of rpm and replaced them with the 4.1 source files from rpm.org, in order to try to get my source version of Kpackage running. My problem is getting the source version to read the rpm database, as it does not know what packages are installed, and this is quite a