"Edward S. Marshall" wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> >
> > http://home.xnet.com/~emarshal/rpm/
> >
> > If you're brave, go ahead and give them a try; as soon as I've had a
> > chance to test them, I'll let everyone know.
>
> Just as an FYI, the upgrade went semi-smoothly. Here's what I discovered:
>
> - you'll need to define %_dbapi to be 1, since your database will still be
> in the old format; you can do that by editing ~/.rpmmacros (or the
> global file /etc/rpm/macros) and adding a line "%_dbapi 1", or from the
> command line, do "rpm --define '_dbapi 1' [...]". If you don't, you'll
> be greeted with a message telling you essentially what I just did. ;-)
>
> - DON'T try something silly like:
>
> rpm --define '_dbapi 1' --define '_dbapi_convert 3' --rebuilddb
>
> This will work (ie. RPM will no longer complain about the versioning
> of the API interface), but you'll discover that the only thing that
> works is "rpm -qa"...only the Packages file gets updated, and all the
> rest remain untouched. RPM gurus: am I missing something, or is the
> new version simply not updating Names, etc?
>
> - If you find you want to downgrade again, here's my step-by step. It
> seems to have worked without problems (ie. when I shot myself in the
> foot with the above step ;-), so I've got a path back and forth between
> versions. :-)
>
> a) grab 3.0.x RPMs (ftp.rpm.org or the RH 6.2 CD, for example), you'll
> probably want all of rpm, rpm-build, rpm-devel, rpm-python, and popt.
> b) "rpm -Uvh --nodeps rpm* popt*"
> c) "rpm --rebuilddb"
> d) "rpm -q redhat-release" just to verify you're back in business.
>
> So, anyone have any suggestions for getting my existing RPM database
> successfully converted to db3 format? :-)
>
> --
> Edward S. Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX Administrator
> http://www.nyx.net/~emarshal/ Mercantec, Inc.
>
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I have been using RawHide since I was using mklinux and now I can't. Recently I
tested 2.4.0-test1 with
patch-2.4.0-test1-ac21 and my NVIDIA driver messed up so I tested with test2-pre6
and my kudzu segfaulted and I had authentification problems with my xserver and
got frustrated. Now I am downloading redhat-6.2 because I had a redhat-6.1 cd
and now I can't install the databases and the %_dbapi 1 won't work. I got the tar
files for Berkeley databases but I can't get it installed. rpm won't build from
cvs because of db headers missing and I can't build the rpm because it can't find
db3 even though I found a Mandrake rpm of db3. I am hoping that after I install
all of the rpms from redhat-6.2 I can pull the same trick to get rpm working or is
it that some rpms of db1 and db3 are missing? It will take me another couple of
days or longer to download all the rpms with a 56k modem going 49.333k.
kmb
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