[lug] RPM issues

[Prescott]

You know, it's my experience from working with Redhat and other RPM based 
distributions that the RPM database eventually gets screwed no matter what. 
I have tried very hard on some systems to keep it intact and it always 
eventually falls apart (not sure why). FWIW, It gets to the point now where 
if I know all the dependancies are met for an RPM I'm trying to install I 
almost always use the --nodeps --force options now. It's really not worth 
the headache to try and keep RPM's flaky database from deepsixing itself.

Prescott


At 02:20 PM 6/21/01, you 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
>
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>   done
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