On Fri, August 3, 2007 2:38 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > 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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