On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:43:30PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Ray Kelly thought:
>conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:
>> >Good point, I imagine that chroot will indeed fail as you have said.
> >There should be an option to use the rpm db on the HDD, check the
> >manpage.
>> had that problem a few years ago on an rh7.x machine & got around it by
> simlinking back to the "real" rpm db's while booted from the rescue cd
Nice thought. I imagine there'll be a bit of a problem with glibc not
being relocatable and it wanting to install to some place other than
/mnt/restoring/mount/point/...
In any case, I've pulled the disk and restored from backup. Ran 'apt-get
install glibc' and the latest glibc installed happily. Now running
'apt-get dist-upgrade' to see if the rest is happy...
See, it still comes down to "when did you last backup?" doesn't it?...
Conor
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