[CentOS] YUM is seriously fubar

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:31 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Beware though, removing the __db.* files (a cache) should be sufficient. 
> You do not have to run rpm --rebuilddb if the cause of the poblem was the 
> corrupt cache.
> Also, do NOT attempt to run rpm --rebuilddb with a corrupt cache in place, 
> because this may cause your rpmdb to get corrupted. Often people complain 
> that rpm --rebuilddb did not solve their rpmdb problems,

Yep, AFAIK, --rebuilddb hasn't been required since the original RPM 4.1
(was it?) of Red Hat Linux (RHL) 8.  Can you confirm that DAG?

> while in fact rpm --rebuilddb corrupted the rpmdb. And a mere removal of
> the cache (__db.*) was sufficient to solve the problem.
> You have been warned :)

I often do an "--initdb" instead.  Is that wrong?  I haven't done it
since RHL 9.


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