On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:30:31AM -1000, Warren Togami scripsit:
> I was bitten by this bug too. For now I downgraded to rpm-4.2-0.70.
> Because rpm was broken, I did the following.
>
> mkdir temp
> cd temp
> rpm2cpio ../rpm-4.2-0.70.i386.rpm | cpio --extract -d
> I copied the binaries over to the system, overwriting the binaries from
> rpm-4.2-0.71. What seemed to stop it from crashing was replacing the
> files in /usr/lib/.
>
> After doing the same thing for popt, I used:
Anyone else, *do not neglect this step*. You'll wind up killing
processes and rebuilding the rpm db if you do. :)
> rpm -Uvh rpm*0.70*.i386.rpm popt*0.70.i386.rpm --oldpackage
>
> This ensures that I am running the "0.70" version and not some weird mix
> of "0.70" and "0.71".
But this does indeed appear to work.
Thanks, Warren.
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