20 Oct
2021
20 Oct
'21
19:17
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 3:37 PM Jan Engelhardt
Not so much. To bootstrap old distros, one can (and perhaps should) just unpack the old rpms (specifically rpm.rpm & glibc etc.), then use that in a chroot to initialize the rpmdb.
Yes, that is correct as far as my knowledge goes, what is being done here is doomed to fail in another step anyways.