[lug] RPM issues

[D. Stimits]

howeljs at grimoire.stortek.com wrote:
> 
> I'm pretty new to Redhat and dealing with RPMs. I've tried to be a good
> boy and only install softare via RPM so the dependancies don't get
> hosed. I'm having a problem now. I'm running RH 7.1 and when I run the
> Red Carpet software updater (Very cool when it works I must admit) It
> fails every dependancy. The packages it complains about I know are
> installed (it complains bout 100's of them). It appears my rpm database
> is hosed. Is there any way to fix this?
> 
> I've tried a rpm --rebuilddb  It ground away for about 30 mins and
> appeared to have no effect. Any suggestions?
> 
> --
>   Jeff Howell
>   EDS Unix Support
> 
>   for a in `your_base`
>    do
>     chown us:us $a
>    done
> 

It's probably something worth posting to Redhat's bugzilla, in the
category of bug to the updater:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com