How to resurrect a clobbered tar
by mfoley from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6MKYA)
For you Slacksters out there maybe you can suggest a solution to my self-inflicted wound. I was in the process of upgrading a 14.2 system to 15.0 using the UPGRADE.txt instructions. I've done this numerous time before, successfully. Except this time, I think I must have not done the first 'upgradepkg .../a/glibc-solibs-*.txz'. When I got to 'upgradepkg .../a/tar-*.txz', it did that OK, but for all subsequent upgradepkg attempts I got an error that it was missing a lib.
I tried restoring just the tar binary from 14.2, but that didn't work.
Is there a way I could fix this screw-up without restoring the system from backup? Even attempting to install the 14.2 tar package wouldn't work because it required tar!
I tried restoring just the tar binary from 14.2, but that didn't work.
Is there a way I could fix this screw-up without restoring the system from backup? Even attempting to install the 14.2 tar package wouldn't work because it required tar!