On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > > I tried to upgrade rpm on a workstation and in the course of doing so, I
> > > seem to have smoked the database. How can I rebuild the rpm database (I
> > > don't have a backup of this box)?
> > >
> > > I even tried to do a reinstall (install, not upgrade), but the
> > > installation seemed to never try to load any rpm's and just indicated a
> > > successful install. Since I seem to now have an empty rpm database, I
> > > can't load any database without getting dependency faults.
> > >
> > > I haven't been able to find anything in the list archives to help.
> > >
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> > Caveat: This is reported NOT to work if you installed RPM4 in a
> > RedHat 6.x box. You need RMP 3.0.5 to install "newer" rpms.
> > John
>
> Yup-- I've got RPM4 and rebuilddb does nada. What else can I try??
>
Step back to 3.0.5. Or, perhaps grab the source tarball and compile
RPM4. My recollection (from this list) is that the RedHat RPM is
corrupt and will corrupt your rpm database.
Personally I'm waiting for RedHat 7.1 before I upgrade! ;-) I wanna
make sure all these major changes have the bugs worked out of 'em
first! ;-)
Jonhn
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