upgrading to rpm-4.x from 3.x [ WAS: Re: problem building rpm with glibc-2.3.2 ]

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On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >
> > I'd be happy to, but the box in question has been running rpm-3.0.6,
> > and i read somewhere (that i can't find now) that the rpm DB from
> > rpm-3.x isn't compatible with rpm-4.x.  So, i fear losing my DB if i
> > upgrade. If this is not true, i'll gladly jump to 4.x.
> >
> Tar up /var/lib/rpm and upgrade to rpm-4.0.5, and convert from db1 ->
> db3 is my suggestion.

Is this as simple as running:
rpm --rebuilddb

after upgrading to rpm-4.x ?

thanks!

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