On 8/3/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So I booted the Fedora 7 Live CD, and tried to find out what software
> packages were installed. There is no directory like /usr/src/fedora
> or /usr/src/redhat where I would have expected to find .rpm packages.
> In fact, there aren't any .rpm packages at all.
>
> # find / -type f -name \*.rpm -print > /tmp/find_rpm # finds nothing
>
> Ask rpm what's installed:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] share]# rpm -qa > /tmp/find_rpm
> rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version
> error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH:
> Database environment version mismatch
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>
> Not quite ready for prime time.
>
> I tried browsing around the Fedora web site for more guidance. <
> http://fedoraproject.org/ >
> Mostly what I could find was advice on how to write things for their
> Wiki, and advice on how to submit things to Bugzilla. No advice
> regarding already-reported bugs.
>
> And we try to foist this off on unsuspecting InstallFest customers.
There may be light at the end of the tunnel. The corresponding Live
CD from Rawhide, which says "Fedora 8" on a splash screen, but "Fedora
release 7.90" when asked politely, still seems to have no .rpm files
but at least "rpm -qa" works the way it should.
Maybe there are updates/bug fixes on repository sites, but I haven't
gone looking for them because I don't yet have a real Fedora 7
installation to work with.
carl
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