[CentOS] RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to current -- repair RPM database

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 19:15 +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> man page
> ========
> 'Use --initdb to create a new database, use --rebuilddb to rebuild the
> database indices from the installed package headers.'
> As in --initdb would efectively nuke all your bookkeeping about
> installed RPMS.

Last time I checked --initdb just creates an empty database.  --
rebuilddb creates an empty database and re-populates it.  You can run
the latter after former.  In fact, I typically had to do that back with
early RPM 4.0.

Furthermore, RPM 4 can get RPM database info from outside the database.
Remember, the db is just an index.  The RPM information is stored
outside of it too.


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