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
