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Re: cvs glibc install fails


From: Justin Guyett
Subject: Re: cvs glibc install fails
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:02:50 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Chiaki Ishikawa wrote:

> I am now writing this from a somewhat old linux in different
> partition. (Yes, I was at least lucky enough to have enough disk space
> to hold a bootable linux image and filesystems in a separate partition.)

and this partition can't mount the broken one, and/or you don't have
working fileutils on this one either?

> The range of statically linked utilities that one needs in case of
> dynamically-linked shared library screw-up is not quite clear to me,
> and thus I wonder if anyone has already set something up already.

depends on what you need to do.  obviously given another working box and
enough time, all you need is ftp or wget or scp, since you can compile (or
cross-compile) all necessary software on the other box and copy it to the
broken one.

probably a better set would be fileutils, e2fsprogs/equivalents for other
filesystems, mount, and scp/ftp.  even some catastrophic mistakes (rm
-rf /bin) can be solved simply with scp/ftp if you have another compatable
system.

also if your distribution has a self-contained package handler (rpm/dpkg),
you can get the source for that and recompile it statically, and as long
as it'll handle urls to packages, you can probably recover from any
situation as long as your system is/remains stable.


justin




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