Robert L Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe I overwrote my Fedora Core 5 version of sqlite (that's > 3.3.3-1.2.x86_64) for the second time this year. I downloaded > sqlite-3.3.8 and compiled it with this configure string: > > ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/sqlite-3.3.8 --libdir=/usr/lib64 > --includedir=/usr/include --disable-tcl --enable-threadsafe --enable-utf8 > > and because of the libdir option shown above, I overwrote the version > 3.3.3 sqlite libraries that the Fedora Core installer put in for me. > > Then I ran yum as 'yum update' to see if yum would still work properly. > I canceled the update before it could install packages, but that was > probably still dumb to do since by then yum had started updating its > sqlite database, right? And it did that with sqlite version 3.3.8? > > To fix this, I downloaded the sqlite-3.3.3-1.2 and > sqlite-devel-3.3.3-1.2 rpm packages for Fedora Core 5 and used 'rpm -ivh > --force ...' to force them to install. > > Did I corrupt the database of Fedora Core 5 package information the yum > program keeps by doing this? Can anyone tell me which files I need to > back up to preserve the yum database? /var/cache/yum? >
Unlike other SQL database engines, SQLite takes great care to preserve backwards compatibility of file formats. And with most releases, forwards compatibility is preserved too. You can freely interchange versions 3.3.3 and 3.3.8 without consequence. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
