Re: [Cooker] Problems upgrading to rpm 4.0

[Takacs Sandor]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, prosa wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Correct. Now, if you do right after rpm-4 upgrade something like rpm -U 
> rpm-devel-4, the program itself will automatically initialize the 
> databases and disregards the existing ones. So, after this,  any 
> rebuilddb fails to upgrade the old database because a new one is already 
> in place. Got where the cat is hidden?

So, why not rpm --rebuilddb in postinst script of rpm4?

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Takika