-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 18:53:19 -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I recently removed the RH8 rpms of rpm and replaced them with the 4.1 > source files from rpm.org, in order to try to get my source version of > > Kpackage running. > > My problem is getting the source version to read the rpm database, as > it does not know what packages are installed, and this is quite a > mess, since rpm without its database just about useless. I understand > that the database is kept in /var/lib/rpm. > > When I uninstalled rpm by rpm, in /var/lib a directory was saved as > rpm.rpmsave. When I installed from source, it created a directory > called /var/lib/rpm. > > I have tried changing /var/lib/rpm.rpmsave to /var/lib/rpm and rpm did > not appear to read anything from there. > > What do I need to do to get rpm to read the old database? Did you have a closer look at where it tried to access the RPM database? Add option -vv when querying the database. Additionally, I would take a look at Red Hat's source rpm of RPM and see what they do in there. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9/G4y0iMVcrivHFQRAh5AAJ9790pTw2esJPnvXhd5AqYr016ixgCfTGPT vYvVG4yhKg4ShS+dVjZ8yvs= =yvxj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
