Re: How do you fix a hosed rpm database?

1999-12-09 Thread Brian
Still dies: [root@blackhole /tmp]# rpm --rebuilddb Data type 0 not supported On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Scott Kindley wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > > Do *any* tools exist at all to help reconstruct an rpm database? One of > > my machines RPM databases got hosed in the upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1. I >

Re: How do you fix a hosed rpm database?

1999-12-09 Thread Scott Kindley
Brian wrote: > > Do *any* tools exist at all to help reconstruct an rpm database? One of > my machines RPM databases got hosed in the upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1. I > still have a directory with plenty of data: (snip) > My question is, what is going on here, I am assuming somehow the data > format

How do you fix a hosed rpm database?

1999-12-09 Thread Brian
Do *any* tools exist at all to help reconstruct an rpm database? One of my machines RPM databases got hosed in the upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1. I still have a directory with plenty of data: signal@blackhole signal]$ ls -al /var/lib/rpm total 6304 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 23 17