Achim Gratz writes:
I've got zypper to re-install the filesystem package. I'm currently letting it to update the remaining ~7000 packages it didn't get to yesterday.
Some 2000 packages into that exercise it hit the final speedbump: rpm got upgraded and wanted to change the database format to ndb, which didn't work while in zypper. I could rebuild the rpmdb, but now zypper doesn't start anymore since it wants an older librpm than is now installed. Presumably I could install a new zypper version via rpm if I could figure out the whole dependency chain, but rpm only seems to tell me the next link when I try. Plus having to specify the full package file names out of the cache dir kind of sucks. Now I'd really like a way of running zypper from the install DVD image targeted at the inactive system root, but it seems zypper is not available there. Absent that I'd need to install a fresh system on a separate disk (which at the moment still has an openSUSE 10.2 on it, LOL) and then try to revive the original system… maybe. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada