On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:25:39 -0500, Eric Warnke wrote: > Frank Schmitt wrote: > > >I don't really understand the consequences: Does this mean, e.g. > >rpm -qi foo will not work anymore? BTW: There are quite many people out > >there who don't like yum and up2date but use apt instead. > > > > > > > > That will still work fine if foo is installed. All they are removng is > the pre-built package database. > > For people that just have to have the oly functionality they can build > the database with rpm -i --justdb --dbpath /path/to/db /path/to/all/RPMS/* More options are needed, at least --noscripts --notriggers, and an added rpm --initdb --dbpath ... first.
