Lamar Owen wrote: > > [replying to myself] > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 07:34 pm, Lamar Owen wrote: > > if you do this. Already RPM can rollback the transaction being done on the > > RPM database (it's a db3 database system), but rolling back the filesystem > > is a little different. > > As a note of interest, RPM itself is backed by a database, db3. Prior to > version 4.x, it was backed by db1. Upgrading between the versions of RPM is > simply -- installing db3 and dependenies, upgrade RPM, and run 'rpm > --rebuilddb' -- which works most of the time, but there are pathological > cases..... > > You now are running db3 instead of db1, if you didn't get bit by a > pathological case. :-)
And how big/complex is the db1/3 system catalog we're talking about exactly? How many rewrite rules have to be converted into the new parsetree format during an RPM upgrade? Jan -- #======================================================================# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
