Re: [Sheflug] Problems with RPM Redhat 8.0

[Barrie Bremner <baz-sheflug [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam ALLEN <Mr.> writes:

    Adam> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 14:25, Nicola Richmond wrote:
    >> > rpm --rebuilddb

    Adam> ps -ef | grep rpm
    Adam> kill -9 <process id's of rpm>
    Adam> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
    Adam> rpm --rebuilddb

    Adam> This is what seems to be the *standard* work around- not
    Adam> seen it for a while on Psyche - but it's a regular event in
    Adam> the beta of psyche. I've not had an experience where the
    Adam> above didn't fix things.

I've just spent some time installing, removing and upgrading various
RPMs this weekend and rpm has hung several times.

I'm not terribly impressed by it.

Killing off rpm during an upgrade seems to end up in 2 installed
versions of the packages being upgraded - ensure you remove the old
version after you rebuild the db.

As an aside, I installed apt for RPMs from freshrpms - very nice. All
that apt-get goodness on Redhat! 

Cheers.

Baz.

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner
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