On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > 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
> >
> I had to use the tarball since with no database, I couldn't use an rpm
> to install rpm. I also had to find out where the install script put
> everything. Once I got the tarred version of the older rpm installed, I
> was able to rebuild the database (once I found where the tarred version
> wanted it, and then I re-installed rpm from the rpm version and copied
> over the rebuild databse. I'm back to normal.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
No problem. :-) I just read this list and happened to
remember the problems with the RedHat version of RPM4.0. :-)
John
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