On Dec 2, 2006, at 10:54 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 6:19 PM -0500 12/2/06, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Meanwhile, --verifydb and "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*" are well along
to being ripped out of rpm as well:
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2006-December/
001923.html
That is wise, just so long as the need for them is also removed.
And the need for --verifydb has largely been removed, patch at
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2006-December/
001926.html
Hint: attempting a cron script to "automate" --verifydb is going to
create more problems than fixes imho, judging from my experience
running rpm -qa from cron. That cron script is going to be ripped as
well,
now that /var/cache/hrmib (i.e. 0 length files named N-V-R.A with
install time stamped onto the file) is being reliably maintained as a
side effect of adding/removing headers from an rpmdb. Its gonna take
years to unlink -lrpmdb from net-snmp however, not the wisest patch
I ever wrote, sigh.
You really don't want to be messing with Berkeley DB, rpmlib, signals,
NPTL, "robust" posix mutexes, etc. Reproducers are almost non-existent,
and dynamic debugging across multiple processes is hard.
But have fun!
73 de Jeff
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