the --initdb and then --rebuilddb solved all of the problem except the kernel issue...

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Bryan J. Smith Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 3:29 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to current --repair RPM database

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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