On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:36 -0700, Gallie, Keith wrote: > KG > Thank you. We've actually discovered mutiple rpm databases on our > systems... > > Seth > That's.... odd. > > You don't know the half of it... > > There is the venerable /var/lib/rpm > > kgallie 539> l /var/lib/rpm > total 76868 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 663552 Feb 14 17:03 __db.003 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1318912 Feb 14 17:03 __db.002 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Feb 14 17:03 __db.001 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Feb 20 06:38 Conflictname > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Aug 1 03:43 Triggername > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 86016 Aug 1 03:43 Sigmd5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 176128 Aug 1 03:43 Sha1header > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 208896 Aug 1 03:43 Requireversion > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 393216 Aug 1 03:43 Requirename > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Aug 1 03:43 Pubkeys > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 114688 Aug 1 03:43 Provideversion > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 663552 Aug 1 03:43 Providename > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 56676352 Aug 1 03:43 Packages > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 45056 Aug 1 03:43 Name > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 20480 Aug 1 03:43 Installtid > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 32768 Aug 1 03:43 Group > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10514432 Aug 1 03:43 Filemd5s > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 1708032 Aug 1 03:43 Dirnames > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10641408 Aug 1 03:43 Basenames this is fine - the __db files are portions of the locking mechanism in rpm. They can be reasonably safely removed. > There is /usr/lib/rpmdb/x86_64-redhat-linux/redhat > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 12 2006 Triggername > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98304 Jul 12 2006 Sigmd5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106496 Jul 12 2006 Sha1header > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196608 Jul 12 2006 Requireversion > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 368640 Jul 12 2006 Requirename > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 12 2006 Pubkeys > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106496 Jul 12 2006 Provideversion > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 327680 Jul 12 2006 Providename > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49152 Jul 12 2006 Name > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32768 Jul 12 2006 Installtid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 12 2006 Group > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10510336 Jul 12 2006 Filemd5s > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Jul 12 2006 Dirnames > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 12 2006 Conflictname > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10534912 Jul 12 2006 Basenames > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50298880 Jul 12 2006 Packages > -rw------- 1 root root 663552 Aug 1 03:43 __db.003 > -rw------- 1 root root 1318912 Aug 1 03:43 __db.002 > -rw------- 1 root root 16384 Aug 1 03:43 __db.001 this is the rpmdb-redhat rpmdb package. This is the world's most useless item: rpm -e rpmdb-redhat it'll just go away > What REALLY scares me is that the __db.00* files in the redhat directory > have the same dates as all the other files in /var/lib/tmp. Cool, huh? > Somehow that just doesn't seem right... the __db files are just an artifact of odd db4 locking. > I decided to PUNT on that old crap and get some new crap. I have > requested rpm 4.4.2.1 be loaded up and I'll have to hack on yum 3.2.2 to > remove the root user requirement. I know it's a little late for the > question but is that a good combo? umm - how do you expect to write to the fs and the system rpmdb w/o root privs? > Furthermore does python 2.4+ include 2.5? I've had some python lawyers > around here tell me "NO", the python 2.4+ means python 2.4.* and does > not include 2.5. that's correct. python 2.4 is not python 2.5 -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
