On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:49, Frank Griffin wrote:
> Leon Brooks wrote:
>>Try this:

>>    rm -vf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
>>    rpm --rebuilddb

> I'll be happy to, but one of the reasons to post this was to see if
> anybody wanted a snapshot of the existing files that seem to cause
> urpmi to recognize that the package is installed but neither urpmf
> nor rpmdrake to recognize the files included in it, or in the case of
> rpmdrake, that the package even exists (since it isn't recognized as
> being either installed or not).

> If somebody can tell me which files to copy off to the side for
> inclusion with a bug report, I'll be happy to move on.  If the
> responsible parties aren't interested, then please just say so, and
> I'll abandon trying to preserve evidence....

Since RPM itself seems to be happy, the contents of /var/lib/urpmi would 
seem to be what's required (about 20MB on my machine). If you wanted to 
be safe, put aside /var/lib/rpm as well (about 23MB here).

Cheers; Leon


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