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Hi,
I was trying to upgrade my rpm version, and I accidentally
hosed the packages database. Is it possible to rebuild it
from Basenames, or should I re-install every package?


thanks



-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 5365760 Oct 18 21:19 Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 12288 Oct 18 21:19 Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 18 22:38 conflictsindex.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 782336 Oct 18 21:19 Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 18 22:38 fileindex.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 5271552 Oct 18 21:19 Filemd5s
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 12288 Oct 18 21:19 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 18 22:38 groupindex.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 16384 Oct 18 21:19 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 40960 Oct 18 21:19 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 18 22:38 nameindex.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Oct 18 21:34 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Oct 18 22:38 packages.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 172032 Oct 18 21:19 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 18 22:38 providesindex.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 69632 Oct 18 21:19 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 12288 Oct 18 21:19 Pubkeys
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 18 22:38 requiredby.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 192512 Oct 18 21:19 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 110592 Oct 18 21:19 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 90112 Oct 18 21:19 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 45056 Oct 18 21:19 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Oct 18 21:46 triggerindex.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 37 37 12288 Oct 18 21:19 Triggername

Daniel wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to upgrade my rpm version, and I accidentally
> hosed the packages database. Is it possible to rebuild it
> from Basenames, or should I re-install every package?

Tried
rpm --rebuilddb
yet?

Allen Kistler wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I was trying to upgrade my rpm version, and I accidentally
>> hosed the packages database. Is it possible to rebuild it
>> from Basenames, or should I re-install every package?
>
>
> Tried
> rpm --rebuilddb
> yet?
>

first thing I did, but didn't work.

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:13:45 -0400, Daniel typed:

> Hi,
> I was trying to upgrade my rpm version, and I accidentally hosed the
> packages database. Is it possible to rebuild it from Basenames, or
> should I re-install every package?

http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb-2003-06/


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