Geoffrey,
> > Maybe there are some RPM experts on the list that can help me out
> > with this one. I beleive I've got a corrupt rpm database on my
> > alpha system (it's happened to me once B4). It now doesn't know much
> > about dependancies anymore, making upgrading packages difficult.
> ok i got a hack that you can try it out please i don't even know if this
> works or not
> do this:
> make a ftp connection and udmp the rpm files of your intel box to alpha ...
> of course some alpha specific packages (AFAIK this is only milo) need to be
> reinstalled if yuouw ant the db to pickup and some you will have to fix e.g.
> you don't have lilo on your system. (maybe rpm --rebuilddb ??)
Hmmm... the two boxes are actually quite different. What they have in
common is that they both contain (most of) the packages that are needed
to build cooker / contrib. My intel is a very recent cooker installation
and
has 987 (!!) packages installed. My alpha only has 773.
Personally I'd either figure out what is really going on or reinstall
the
box...
Thanks anyway,
Stefan
