From: eugene@bgs.com (Eugene Kanter) Subject: Re: more cygwin patches 6 Jan 1999 11:41:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3693722E.55E59BF4.cygnus.gnu-win32@bgs.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Christopher Seawood wrote: > While we're on the subject, does anyone know how to get around the problem > of replacing a file that is currently in use? Upgrading rpm itself via > rpm is practically impossible as /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc must be present and > therefore can't be replaced and causes the upgrade to fail. > I have a version of rpm-2.5.pre6 which does not require any configuration files to be present. Default rpmrc and rpmpopt are compiled into the binary. There still is a problem upgrading rpm binary itself, however it can be partially avoided by copying rpm binary to /tmp and running it from there. Source rpm is available in ftp://ftp.ultra.net/pub/eugene/SRPMS directory. I can provide a binary upon request. For general rule of upgrading locked files the best information I found so far is from the book "Bulletproof installs" by Leslie E. Easter. ISBN 0137980914. The idea is to schedule a rename operation upon next reboot. It is done via registry on NT and wininit.ini file on W95. Eugene. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".