On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, WH Bouterse wrote:
> geoffrey lee wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Camille Begnis
> > > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 8:19 PM
> > > To: cooker liste
> > > Subject: [Cooker] Feature freeze mdk-rpm now online
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> On a more mundane note;
> For more times than I can count over the last few months
> I have gotten these messages when doing the 'rpm -Uvh' thing!
> I have generally ignored them because the new rpm usually works1
> However just curious !?
>
> 'package README no listed in the file index'
I got messages like this installing Netscape and a couple of other packages
recently. Later on, rpm just plain hung while installing something else. I
had to kill -9 it! After that, I had to do a --rebuilddb, but once I did
that, I haven't seen any problems since (the same package that had previously
hung the system installed flawlessly after the --rebuilddb). I'm thinking
that my rpm db got hosed at some point. Anyways, unless someone has a better
explanation for why these messages are appearing (and I never did see one
after a few people posted about it after the last Netscape update), I'd
recommend simply preemptively doing a --rebuilddb just to be safe. I think
in the future I'll simply do this after any new install, or after installing
a large number of packages.
