On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 18:14 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: >Phil Muldoon writes: > > On the central db idea (as opposed to having each application having > > their own db), what happens on a partial disk failure, and e2fsck can't > > recover inodes that belong to the db? Reinstall all gcj built rpms? > >No. Whenever an rpm is installed, the %post should *rebuild* the db >from each application's db. It's just a cache. Does this get amortized so that you don't regenerate it for each package in a transaction? Otherwise are we getting O(n^2) work? Dave Malcolm
