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On Wednesday 04 July 2001 13:52, Joel Hammer babbled:
> Well, I got it done, but never in a straight line.
> I used the package rpm-3.0.6.tar.gz, which was not the one specified in the
> Step by step. This has the advantage of not needing a working rpm to
> install, it is just a big tar file. This was good, since I thoughtfully
> rpm'd -e my old rpm to get it out of the way for the new rpm. Worked nice.
> The only hooker is that it puts all the files into /usr/src/redhat, which
> confused me for a while. I sure hope playing yahoo chess it worth all this.
> Joel
I did the same thing on most of the boxes I admin (But I went for rpm 4.x). I
created /usr/src/packages as a dir, then made /usr/src/redhat and
/usr/src/OpenLinux symlinks to that dir... I've yet to find and rpm that
doesn't like the setup..
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