[26182] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.3.11 - 9.3.16: update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Mon Nov 15 10:58:54 2004
Message-Id: <200411151558.iAFFwJZ5031478@red-herring.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:04:34 EST."
<1100487873.29606.126.camel@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:58:19 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
> cd /
> rpm2cpio /path/to/rpm-4.2.3-10.i386.rpm | cpio -id
> rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs /path/to/rpm-4.2.3-10.i386.rpm
>
> I noted that many of the rpm-related files on the system did not
> (previously) match rpm-4.2.3-10.i386.rpm; I don't know why that is.
That'd be because I didn't remember the invocation to unpack them,
and copied them in from another system (one with rpm-4.2.2-0.14); I
obviously didn't do a sufficiently complete job.