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: Adam (adamhadm@frontiernet.net)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 12:26:12 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

Since I did not immediately rpm -rebuild can I copy the database from
a backup? If so where can I find where the database is hidden?

Thanks...

-Adam

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