At 4:39 PM -0500 11/29/06, seth vidal wrote: >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. ... Measuring a problem does not paper over it. You did not understand my post. Please ask me about anything in it that is unclear. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
