>>>>> "prosa" == prosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
prosa> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>> prosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> By upgrading to rpm 4.0 I noted the old database was
>>> unavailable. The problem happened as rpm initializes the base
>>> instead of rebuilding it.
>>
>>
>> Use "rpm --rebuilddb" you'll still have previous database.
>>
>>
>>
prosa> As usual people don't read fully what is written... I know
prosa> that I still have the old database. The problem is that
prosa> just making rpm -U rpm-4.0... does not rebuild the
prosa> database and _relies_ it to unavailable by initializing a
prosa> new database (from this point, any further rpm --rebuildb
prosa> will rebuild only the new database). So your recomendation
prosa> is useless. If you have read carefully the previous post
prosa> you have noted this.
I had the same problem, I don't find a solution but as I keep
installed rpm packages, rpm -iv --justdb --nodeps --force *.rpm rebuilds
easily the database without modifications in the filesystem.
I know it isn't really a solution ...
Thierry.
