Hi, On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:29:27PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > 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. > > Sorry. You're actually right. --initdb don't nuke the RPM database. I've actually not done it ever on live system, but usually used it to make empty one for chroot. Obviously i assumed it writing over the current RPM database as it _should do init_ Just tested and it does not nuke the RPM database. -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi at iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/