This is an interesting point... Is there an error condition - or set of conditions - under which yum should say: "Hey user - your rpm database is probably borked, do you want me to try to repair it: [Yes/No]:" And then take the steps mentioned in that article on http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb ?? Greg ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:53:09 -0600 Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Re: wbel-u] yum problems - correction without reboot. To: whitebox-users@xxxxxxxx On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:35, R P Herrold wrote: > Goodness -- This issue, its cause, and its solution are so old > it has whiskers; the following URL has been the title URL of > #rpm on freenode for over a year. See: > http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ > for a discusson. Of course the question of why RPM hasn't been fixed to automatically detect this condition and rebuild the indexes is one best left to the philosophers. :) After all, this problem has been biting people in the butt for over a year now. -- John M. http://www.beau.org/~jmorris This post is 100% M$Free! Geekcode 3.1:GCS C+++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ W++ w--- Y++ b++ 5+++ R tv- e* r _______________________________________________ Whitebox-users mailing list Whitebox-users@xxxxxxxx http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users
