rpm questions

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:13:06PM -0700, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> What would be different if one booted from  CDROM#1 in rescue mode.
> (Assuming that the RPMs were still local to be installed.)
> 
> Would one chroot and rpm -e  ---> rpm -U/F each package
> in question?

Basically the same

> Would "rpm --root " be useful to recover from a broken 'rpm'
> situation?

For some cases like extra copies of glibc its rather essential.