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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:23:45 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > I am sure that this is self inflicted.
> > I did an upgrade to RH 8.0 from 7.3.
> >
> > I had many problems with RPM, and seemed to have them
> > resolved them with the help of this list.
> >
> > Now, for some reason my RPM database is gone.
I assume you made a typo and instead of
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
removed files /var/lib/rpm/* or something like that.
> > When I do rpm -qa all I see is the rpm packages.
> >
> > rpm --rebuild takes all of one second to complete.
> > rpm --initdb does not help.
>
> If you did an --initdb, the database really is gone now if it wasn't
> before. That's the purpose of initdb. man rpm would have told you
> that.
So far, my experience differs:
# pwd
/var/lib/rpm
# ll | wc -l
16
# du
31006
# rpm -qa | wc -l
801
# rpm --initdb
# rpm -qa | wc -l
801
IMO, rpm --initdb is smart enough to not kill an existing database.
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