This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote: >I'm very out of touch with the way of the Red Hat, but is there >seriously that much difference between rpm's installed packages db and >dpkg's?
rpm uses Berkeley DB format in /var/lib/rpm; there were rpm bugs in 7.3 and 8.0 releases of Red Hat which meant that rpm would just stop dead in its tracks without closing the database properly, requiring a --rebuilddb after nuking the database. The only difference I've noticed is that you can easily edit the Debian package database when something goes wrong; whereas with RPM you have to nuke and rebuild. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
