On 02/10/2007, Itamar Reis Peixoto <itamar(a)ispbrasil.com.br> wrote:
you don't want chroot to the old filesystem because you dont have
rpm
installed
first read the rpm manual
and install rpm and yum with something like this
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps --root=/mnt/xyz
http://mirror.fedora/yum.rpm
http://mirror.fedora/rpm.rpm http://mirror.fedora/grub.rpm etc...
Avoid --force like the plague. It is the same as --replacepkgs
--replacefiles --oldpackage, pick the options you really need. The
--replacefiles option is the one you want to stay away from. It
permits RPM to overwrite installed files even if they belong into
other packages.