On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> G'day...
>
> james> I now have apt/dpkg working again! YAY!! Try doing THAT with a
> screwed RPM
> james> database etc! :P <meta tag=flamesuit content=on>
>
> I love both debian and RH - sorry, still have to bite...
>
> `rpm --rebuild-db`
>
>
> All the best...
>
> Mike
Yeh - I knew that comment would get some hackles up ;) I've just never had
ANY success with RPM after the database gets hosed. In one case I spent
over a week (working with Red Hat support) and still ended up with a
non-functioning RPM :-/
I switched to Debian over 4 years ago and never had any such dramas - even
with Debian-unstable. In fact, this problem with apt/dpkg on Monday is the
first problem I couldn't fix with the standard apt/dpkg command line tools.
I guess this is one of those "YMMV" type arguments - we all have our "2am
horror stories" which usually gives us a bias one way or another.
Cheers,
James
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