Joseph E. Mainusch writes:
> I screwed up and upgraded RPM to a version (4.0-4) that truly disagrees with
> my system (RedHat 7.0 w/ Ximian desktop). Now, everytime I try to run it
> with a -i or a -U, it gives me a seg fault. The real problem is that now I
> can't even back out to where I was before, since that would mean downgrading
> rpm using rpm! Dagnabbit! (pardon my language please)
First make copies of your rpm database files.
You could go to another system that has the working version
installed and do:
rpm -ql rpm
You don't have to sweat the documentation files, etc., but copy any
binaries, libraries, scripts, configuration files from the working box
to a temporary directory on the wedged one. Then, starting with the
birary that seg-faults, try saving the one from the broken
distribution, replacing it with the one from the older version. Do
more files until it maybe starts working. Then maybe you can --force
an install of the old version?
Maybe.
Bill
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