Panu Matilainen wrote:
Note that rpm 4.9.x works just fine with BDB 4.x versions too, there's
no requirement to use 5.x.
As an aside, rpm 4.9.x is getting a bit long in the tooth already, why
not go with a newer stable version if upgrading?
Yep, I ended up going for 4.10 (I know it is not the latest version, but
it was the first one to have the X-Unit* capabilities which is what I
needed it for).
Trying "rpm --rebuilddb -v" wasn't of any use either as I ended up with
the following errors:
error: db5 error(-30969) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database
environment version mismatch
error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - (-30969)
When upgrading from a BDB version to another, you'll need to remove
the BDB environment, which is always incompatible between BDB versions:
'rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*'
That is indeed the case - I figured it out later on. There is a
"posttrans" scriptlet in the .spec file (I use FC), which *should* take
care of this automatically, but doesn't. Why? Because there is a bug in
the libdb-utils package (I used version 5.00).
libdb-utils 5+ *should* obsolete the db4-utils package (as it is a
straight-forward replacement), but doesn't, hence the "postrtrans"
scriptlet, which is dependent on an error message being displayed,
doesn't work and it is why I was getting this error when trying to
upgrade - the "old" db4-utils package is not deleted and because it
shows no error message the __db.00? files are not deleted, so I had to
delete them all manually in the end.
On a slightly separate note, during the new build, I failed about 32 rpm
checks - all caused by non-existing "/proc" directory (I am using mock,
so /proc isn't there, obviously), so that is something for the
developers to note for future releases.
This should be taken care of in newer rpm versions already.
I can confirm that this is the case - I passed all tests when building
version 4.10.x. I also ended up recompiling and installing about 10+
other packages - thank god I used mock and the whole thing didn't took long.
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