Simon, When you did this:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:10:42PM +0000, Simon Baker wrote: > Moved /var/lib/rpm out of the way ... you should have been prepared to get something like that: > Things are seriously weird... [...] > tachikoma!root:/usr/src/world# rpm -Uvh RPMS/rpm-4.2-owl21.i686.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: > libz.so is needed by rpm-4.2-owl21 > tachikoma!root:/usr/src/world# rpm -Uvh RPMS/zlib-* > Preparing... > ########################################### [100%] > package zlib-1.2.3-owl1 is already installed > package zlib-devel-1.2.3-owl1 is already installed Thus, the above does not indicate the presence of another RPM issue in Owl (besides the one you reported originally). Alexander
