[CentOS] Upgrade 3.4 --> 3.7 went awry: rpmdb hosed

Fri Jul 7 13:15:07 UTC 2006
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:08:42AM -0400, William L. Maltby enlightened us:
> Having been around (but nevertheless still ignorant of RPM) when RPM
> suffered the indignity of having its DBM upgraded, I have been creating
> three yum-based lists in /var after each update. The one which I think I
> love the most is the installed list. However, my ardor may be misplaced
> due to my relative ignorance about these things. My thinking is that I
> can use that list, with a small amount of scripting and/or manual
> editing, to recover the rpmdb if I need to. I could also make a list
> from RPM itself, but I like the "trust but verify" philosophy that is
> satisfied by getting a list from a different source (hmmm... is *that*
> source trustworthy?   ;-).
> 

Creating the lists is an excellent idea.

> Anyway, all that presumes that recovery from my periodic backups are not
> reasonable for some reason.
> 
> My question: am I missing the mark? Should I really be doing a list only
> from RPM or is the YUM list (suf/de)ficient?
> 

It's the same list. Yum is merely an interface/dependency resolver on top of
the RPM database.

Matt

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