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Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #4 from Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>  2007-08-14 09:51:15 MST ---
(In reply to comment #0 from Jon Nelson)
> That operation used to work at least as of 27 July 2006.
> The latest RPM update (installed 11 August 2006) appears to have broken it.
> 
> How to test:
> 
> very easy:
> 
> 1. be root
> 2. mkdir /some_empty_directory
> 3. rpm --root=/some_empty_directory --initdb
> 
> That operation /used/ to work, and no longer does.
> The operation is very important to building a chroot.
> 

Using:
 rpm-4.4.2-76
on openSUSE 10.2 (fully up-to-date as of this writing) the instructions:

1. be root
2. mkdir -p /some_empty_directory/var/lib/rpm
3. rpm --root=/some_empty_directory --initdb

Works just peachy!


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