On Thursday 20 December 2001 07:54 am,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tony Alfrey wrote: <snip> > % (how do you know so much about this stuff??) > > I make my living knowing this stuff.
But I suppose this is inherently UNIX knowledge, not Linux specific? <snip> > % 2. I did rebuilddb. > > This does not do what you think it does. It removes holes from the > Berkeley DB database files and rebuilds the indices. More > specifically, it rebuilds the databases indices using the header > information from installed packages. It does *not* restore missing > information beyond what is stored in the RPM databases. > I do not really know what it does, I just did it because I've seen it recommended many times in the context of making rpms install cleanly, and no one ever seemed to indicate that it did any damage. I will need to one day learn about these details; i.e. "indicies". <snip> > . . . . Or, I'm smokin' dope > because I no longer use or have installed OpenLinux. Really???? What are you running?? <snip> Thanks for your time explaining these things! -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
