On Thursday 03 February 2011 15:18:02 Jeff Johnson wrote:
> The procedure isn't hard, its essentially this 1 command (snipped from
> tests/Makefile.am) ...
>                 @__DB_DUMP@ olddb/Packages \
> 
>                   | sed \
> 
>                     -e 's/^type=hash$$/type=btree/' \
>                     -e '/^h_nelem=/d' \
>                     -e 's/^ \(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)$$/ \4\3\2\1/' \
> 
>                   | @__DB_LOAD@ newdb/Packages; \
> 
> [...]
> 
> That process (with hardening) is being accomplished in Mandriva and IDMS
> by adding to rpm.spec
> 
>       %posttrans
>       /usr/lib/rpm/dbconvert.sh

The procedure is clear, thanks, I'll try this when it's time for another rpm 
upgrade (i.e. when other current higher priority distribution tasks are 
completed).

Silvan

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