Bug 4638 – Update de-installed package!

Bug 4638 - Update de-installed package!

Summary:	Update de-installed package!

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	1999-08-21 04:08 EDT by sg618lo
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-08-21 10:01:57 EDT
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Description sg618lo 1999-08-21 04:08:44 EDT

Tried to update rpm-3.0.3-0.12.i386.rpm to
rpm-3.0.3-0.14.i386.rpm with the
rpm -U rpm-3.0.3-0.14.i386.rpm command. The command
resulted in an uninstallation of the rpm-package instead
of an upgrade, including the rpm-database (!!!).

Would appreciate any hint in how to re-install rpm
and re-build the rpm-database.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-21 10:01:59 EDT

You will need to get a tarball containing an rpm binary from
	 ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-3.0.x/rpm-3.0.2-6.0.i386.tar.gz

Then do (as root)
	cd /var/tmp
	tar xzvf rpm-3.0.2-6.0.i386.tar.gz
	cp ./bin/rpm /bin/rpm
	mkdir -p /usr/lib/rpm
	cp ./usr/lib/rpm/* /usr/lib/rpm

You should then reinstall rpm from an whatever version of the package
you wish to run.

Your database should be fine.

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