prosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> > I have read your message. This should not happen, upgrading to rpm-4
> > should not create a fresh new database, that's why i told to do the
> > rebuilddb.
> >
> ?????. So how that happen then? I digged through the package and didn't
> note that there was any kind of rebuild/init. The only thing the install
> scripts do is to convert some stuff in /usr/lib/rpm. However if I try to
> install anything, then rpm first inits the database without looking for
> the old one (now, it does this stuff automatically! Old rpm always
> demanded for the initdb)... This moment is nearly unvisible as there are
> no warnings about the need to rebuild (however I think that a small script
> in the package could do this for you). Myself, at beginning, didn't note
> this as I did rpm -U rpm*. Ektanoor
After install of rpm-4 I issued a "rpm -q <package>" to test then saw
there was a problem then did the rebuilddb. This worked.
Ok the rpm definitely needs some work.
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Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
