by While attempting to upgrade my 5.1 box to 5.2 of RedHat, the
Installation/Upgrade program consistently dies after identifying the currently
installed packages and informing me that changes to files will be logged. It
presents a dialog box stating that it cannot rebuild the rpm database, and
alludes that I may be out of disk space. I am using 1.1 gigs of a 4.3 gig drive
In my attempts to rectify this I used the 5.1 tools to both query and rebuild
the database - no problems. Per the reccomendations in the 5.2 faqs I rpm'd rpm
to the version included in 5.2, again both queried and rebuilt the rpm database
and still get the same results. In additional testing I have used the newly
installed RPM to remove, update, and install new packages on 5.1 install without
error or warning.
Has anyone run across the same or similar problem and know of a solution? Does
anyone know the sequence of events in the installation program so that I could
possibly whipup a quick little perl script to mimic these actions and upgrade
that way?
Thanx in advance for any suggestions or ideas
Ted Williams