[CentOS] RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to current --repair RPM database
David Campbell
decampbell1 at comcast.net
Sat Aug 20 19:45:39 UTC 2005
the --initdb and then --rebuilddb solved all of the problem except the
kernel issue...
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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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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Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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