On Dec 12, 2013, at 12:34 PM, bishwajit goswami wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a partition up and running with a set of RPMs. Now I want to prepare a
> backup partition with the same set of rpms. The installation goes through
> properly and the corresponding files are available on the alternate partition.
> The problem comes when querying the rpmdb of the created partition. The rpmdb
> do not seem to be updated with all the packages which were installed. A
> sample snapshot is below:
> [sysadmin-vm:0_RP0:/mnt/rpm/calvados]$ rpm -ivh --nodeps --root /partprep
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.*
> Preparing...##
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.sc ##
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.all ##
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.lc ##
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.rp ##
> [sysadmin-vm:0_RP0:/mnt/rpm/calvados]$ rpm -qa --root /partprep
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.rp-5.2.0.01I-Default.x86_64
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.lc-5.2.0.01I-Default.x86_64
> [sysadmin-vm:0_RP0:/mnt/rpm/calvados]$
>
> When I check the double verbose output, I simply see that a few packages got
> remove from addition to corresponding rpmdb files.
> D: removing "ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.sc" from Name index.
> D: removing 19 entries from Basenames index.
> D: removing
> "Calvados/ncs6k-sysadmin-boot/ncs6k-sysadmin/sc/Default/mandatory/PII
>
> Any suggestion would be helpful in this regard. If needed, I could attach the
> verbose output.
> Also, the rpmdb do not seem to be corrupt since rpm verification runs
> smoothly.
>
If you actually used -i (rather than -U), then rpm should _NOT_ have
removed anything.
The likeliest explanation is that there is an Obsoletes: in some package
that is causing a package to be removed.
Examine the -vv output ... everything that rpm does is logged in -vv output
(but there isn't enough information to guess the cause from what you provided).
73 de Jeff
>
> --
> Bishwajit Goswami
>
