Re: Lost my rpm data base. How can I get it back?


Subject: Re: Lost my rpm data base. How can I get it back?
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 12:16:00 MST


On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Adam wrote:

> I updated the latest rpm packages and when I did it wiped out the
> listing. All that is in the listing are a package I had installed
> after updating rpm. I initdb and the other one and they both did not
> do any thing.

To upgrade to rpm4 you must first install rpm4, then *immediately* 'rpm
--rebuild'. If you did not do this I know of no way to recover your
database.

To upgrade to rpm-3.0.5 (which can read rpm4 packages), you simply 'yup
update rpm' and no further steps should be necessary.

-Hollis



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