[Rpm-maint] rpm version on fc8 removed my /usr/include and /usr/bin

[Jim Galarowicz]

Hi Panu,

Your comment about yum on the rescue disk is valid.
It's not there.  Bummer!

Jim G


Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Jim Galarowicz wrote:
> 
>> Hi Panu, all,
>>
>> Thanks much for this information!!
>>
>> I can only get access to my system via booting in fc8 rescue
>> install.
> 
> That bad... ouch again :-/
> 
>> The rescue mounts my system as /mnt/sysimage.
>> Then I do a chroot /mnt/sysimage.  After that I can
>> use your very helpful command to get the damaged packages.
>>
>> But yum was one of the packages that was damaged and is gone
>> from the system.
>>
>> Is there a way to update my system while using the recovery
>> system yum/rpm?
> 
> Oh, the rescue image has yum these days? (Been a while since I've last 
> used one :) In that case, don't chroot to /mnt/sysimage but use 
> --installroot=/mnt/sysimage option for yum, something like this should 
> work:
> 
> # yum --installroot=/mnt/sysimage reinstall $(cat 
> /mnt/sysimage/tmp/damaged-pkgs.txt)
> 
> Except... there's probably an extra roadblock: if memory serves, 
> reinstall wasn't implemented in the initial F8 yum version, so there are 
> some extra hoops to jump through. Try the following from the rescue 
> image, without chrooting:
> 
> # rpm -e --justdb --root /mnt/sysimage yum
> # yum --installroot=/mnt/sysimage install yum
> 
> With a little bit of luck, you should be able to chroot to /mnt/sysimage 
> and have a working, new yum there that can do reinstall as described 
> earlier. Or at least a working yum in the chroot so you can update to a 
> newer one that can finally do the reinstall.
> 
>     - Panu -