On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Rob Maidment wrote:
> I have built RPM 4.7.0 and installed it as per the instructions in the> INSTALL file, culminating in a successful call to “make install”. My> linux is “from scratch”, the kernel version is 2.6.27.4. > > Following the install of RPM there is no RPM database (the Packages file> does not exist anywhere). If I execute “rpm --initdb” a folder called> “${prefix}” (literally, but without the quotes) is created under root and> I end up with the following files:> > > > /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/Packages> > /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.000> > /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.001> > /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.002> > /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.003> > /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.004> > > > If I then try to install a package I get the following error: “ERROR:> Cannot get shared lock on RPM Database.”> > > > Does anyone know why my database is in such a strange location, and why I> cannot install any packages?
This is obviously a bug that needs fixing, but giving an explicit prefix such as --prefix=/usr to ./configure should work.
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