On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:02 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > It would be a good idea to find out how many Fedora users have corrupt RPM > databases. My rpm_verifydb package at > <http://georgeanelson.com/rpm-verifydb.htm> is a start, but it won't report > problems back to you guys. ISTM that if yum were to (possibly temporarily) > verify the RPM database with the only tool available in RPM, "rpm > --verifydb" (or its synonym "rpmdb_verify"), and then report only broken > databases to Fedora, that this would not be the sort of privacy invasion > that is causing so much angst. If RPM's developer, Jeff Johnson, is > correct, you won't receive any reports, and the issue can be dropped. See > the thread I started at Redhat's rpm-list, "SUG: Automatic RPM database > verification and repair", for his take on the whole matter. > > If you want me to do some of this, ask. Tony, We'd like for the problem to be fixed 'correctly' where correctly means not just papering over it. However, I definitely understand wanting to fix problems for users one way or the other. So the best I can say is that if this problem isn't fixed properly before Fedora 8 then I'll push hard for something similar to the work-around solution you've described to be implemented. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
