On 2022-08-27 21:19, Achim Gratz wrote:
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.
That can be achieved by booting the DVD (freshly downloaded) and choosing "upgrade" instead of install. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)