2014-10-04 11:08 GMT-03:00 Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: First think of me of as just an slightly above average user :) >> I am sorry I did not fully follow the discussions earlier. >> I only recall it was supposed to exist some compatibility >> layer at some point. >> >> But I keep all the time needing to >> >> $ sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > > > there is no need to do so I switched to using dnf because yum stopped working at some point. I think it was something related to a libdb-5 update when only dnf would work. >> because I forget and use yum instead of dnf in rawhide. >> >> I am not really needing anything special, just install >> a package, or run "dnf update" to update rawhide > > > but why do you think you need to touch anything below > /var/lib/rpm/? that's the rpm database you should never > touch without damned good reasons like follow dist-upgrade > instructions I learned to do that (rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*) long long ago, as the standard way to recover from "minor" rpm database corruption. But I survived extreme cases where not even "rpm --rebuilddb" would work. As long as the Packages database is not (completely) corrupted, it should be possible to recover... > you can happily use "yum" and "dnf" on the same setup > all the time and the warnings "rpm database modified" > or similar are harmless, you may even trigger them by > touch the rpmdb by hand It does not work for me... I sent the email because, I again, forgot and run $ sudo yum update and gone to another terminal, a bit later I learned that yum thought all updates would be duplicates, so I did $ sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* $ sudo dn update sent the email, and now, update to latest rawhide has already finished... Thanks, Paulo -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct