On Saturday 08 November 2003 08:52 pm, James J. Ramsey wrote: > I found that I can easily trash the RPM database with > two commands: > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 rpm -Uvh \ > rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm Why did you do the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL during the rpm installation? Wouldn't that break the NPTL RPM stuff, creating the corruption? The LD_ASSUME_KERNEL would only apply when actually running rp8, no? Asking that RPM be resilient from this maluse would be like asking Unix to not delete the whole filesystem when executing as root 'rm -rf /' . LD_ASSUME_KERNEL is a powerful sledgehammer of a tool that, in this case corrupted the rpm database. This tool isn't meant to be used willy-nilly, as you found out the hard way. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
