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Crossed relays in RPM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hUnTeR)
Wed Nov 4 12:32:37 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 12:24:28 -0500
From: hUnTeR <hunter@esprit.net>
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Sorry to post this here, but i've received this mailing from a user
searching my RPM mirror site and thought it appropriate to post this
here for more technical help.
Again, appologies for the long post. You may post any ideas directly to
his email address at Robert Pearlman <rpearlmn@pipeline.com>.
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Michael B. Weiner
Systems Administrator/Partner
The UserFriendly Network (UFN)
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Subject: Crossed relays in RPM
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 22:02:07 -0500
From: Robert Pearlman <rpearlmn@pipeline.com>
To: rpm2html@userfriendly.net
I'm almost certain that you're the wrong address to receive this note,
but you're the first name (or URL) I've been able to find in the sites
I've searched, trying to reach Red Hat support, if there is such a
thing. I do suspect that you know to whom I should send this, and
I'd appreciate it if you forward this to him/her.
I've got my RPM into an untenable configuration; I probably did this by
moving or deleting some files it controls, then deleting a package,
then, etc. etc. The result is that when I try to re-install gcc it says
"package gcc is already installed", but when I try to erase that package
it says "package gcc is not installed". I've tried many reasonable
versions of the package name.
I started down this route because I've got a non-working gcc, and I
suspect that the trouble is the library, which yields undefined
symbols. (Erasure of the library is refused because of the many
dependencies). I can probably clear things up for a while by doing
a forced library installation. But this still leaves the RPM data-base
fouled. The only alternative I've been able to think of is to scrape my
Linux partition back to raw disk and re-install. Very frightening. I
can copy a lot of files to another partition, but there's a big
danger of losing my monitor initialization, etc.
So, is there any likely way of getting past this crossed-relay
situation?
Tnx for your time and attention
Robert Pearlman
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