Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 10:07:50 -0400
From: Jeff Johnson 
Reply-To: rpm-list@redhat.com
To: rpm-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: rh-rpm] Re: rpm v3 --> v4 upgrade problems

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:36:00AM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> > I assume that you are on a Red Hat 6.2 box?  If so, connect to
> > http://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/i386 and grab the rpm.rpm packages
> > from within.  You should be able to rpm -Uvh them.
>
> there are also other posible dependencies -- but the most
> likely one is the popt dependency.
>
> Just keep pulling and additional items needed, in to the same
> end directory at your host, from the cited archive to get any
> additional dependencies, and apply as per the tip at:
>   /hintskinks/requires/
>
> Then remember to run:     rpm --rebuilddb    at once to
> rebuild the RPM database.

The real trick is to do a --rebuilddb immediately to insure that
the db1 format is initially intact. The final --rebuilddb converts
from db1->db3.

There are rpm-4.0.4-6x.21 packages  for Red Hat 6x at
        ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/rpm-4.0.4-6x

Download
        popt-1.6.4-6x.21.i386.rpm
        rpm-4.0.4-6x.21.i386.rpm
and do
        rpm --rebuilddb         # <- make sure rpmdb is OK
	[Ed: Next line was not in Jeff's original post, but is implicit]  
	cd /var/lib
        tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb.tar.gz rpm

        rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0.4-6x.21.i386.rpm popt-1.6.4-6x.21.i386.rpm
        rpm --rebuilddb         # <- convert from db1 -> db3

Download the other packages when you need them. You're likely to
need rpm-build for rpmbuild, and rpm-devel to rebuild the packages
below.

You will also have to recompile gnorpm, kpackage, rpmfind, rpm2html
and ucd-snmp at some point, to use the rpm-4.0.4 libraries.

HTH

73 de Jeff
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Jeff Johnson    ARS N3NPQ
jbj@redhat.com (jbj@jbj.org)
Chapel Hill, NC