Not sure what you mean by "...what looks like ..". Rebuilding the database
restores/updates the dependancy issues, *tries* to resolve duplicate
entries, and so forth. Are you having problems installing or "-e" ing
some rpms? When you say "looks" are you being literal? Please don't think
I'm being facetious here; I'm *not*. I'm just trying to cover the bases. If
you want it to look ordered is some way, and right after an install an 'rpm
-qa' is indeed pretty well ordered, then there are tools for that. I would
certainly agree that an un-ordered "rpm -qa" is next to useless.
Personally I don't find uppercase files being sorted before lowercase ones
usefull at all. Plus, why call it 'Eterm' when 'eterm' does the same work?
Hell, I still don't know why they called it .Xdefaults instead of
.xdefaults. There, that feels better. :-/
I pretty well have a *term constantly displaying all my installed rpm's.
I've used the same command since RH 4.2
$ rpm -qa | sort -fd | less
It's probably too late for me to put an alias in ~/.bashrc (like alias
rpms='rpm -qa | sort -fd | less') because I can type the longer version as
fast as the the alias!! Anyway, if I've completely misunderstood you, I
apologize: it wouldn't be the first time I've missed the mark. Yet surely
it could be useful given the peculiarities of Drakupdate or whatever that
dangerous contraption is called.
Dave.
On 22-Dec-2000 MichaelM wrote:
> b5dave wrote:
>
>> # rpm --rebuilddb
>> Don't worry, it takes a while.
>
> Nope. Still getting what looks like an old RedHat database =(
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