On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 06:14, Brian K. Jones wrote:
> On Saturday 09 November 2002 6:17 pm, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 13:11, Patrick wrote:
> > > > I have problem with rebuilding database. I had a problem with
> > > > installation of a rpm and i killed a process. Since rpm database became
> > > > unusable i tried to rebuld rpm database (rpm -rebulddb). But process
> > > > doesn't do anything. It made a directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.25695
> > > > which is empty, and process doesn't look like it works anything. Any
> > > > idea ?
> > >
> > > In /var/lib/rpm delete __db.00{1,2,3} and try again.
> >
> > I definitely nominate this for the FAQ.
>
> I think something like this belongs in the FAQ, but these kinds of answers
> piss me off, because they fail to explain *why* you need to do this.
I sent that answer. Unfortunately I do not know why. Just how to solve
it. If you had read the bugzilla entry and another link both in another
answer then iirc there is not even an answer from Red Hat as to why this
is happening. Or I did not understood it :)
If this
> can be explained, I'd love to add it in with the explanation.
>
> I think there's a lot of this that goes on in the interest of peoples' time
> and brevity and stuff, but in the end I think the choice is basically: give
> users a fish and they'll eat for a day, *teach* them to fish, and they'll eat
> forever.
>
> Answers like this are just 'giving fish'. This is fine on a list where you
> just want an answer FAST and to hell with why, but I think an FAQ should
> strive for a little bit more.
>
Cheers,
Patrick
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