Hello,
I'm troubleshooting a problem with rpm 4.11.3. I'd like to know a bit more about what --rebuilddb actually does. From the source (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/rpm-4.11.3-release/lib/rpmdb.c#L2841), it looks like it just checks each entry in the package database to make sure it has certain fields.
From its behavior though, I suspect it is doing more. For example, I can run rpm --dbpath <old_rpm_db> --rebuilddb on a db-created by rpm 4.8, which is a db4 format and completely unreadable to rpm 4.11. Somehow, in this situation, rpm 4.11 will produce a new (but inaccurate) db.
If anyone can give me any insight about how rpm rebuilds its database, or point me to relevant portions of the source, I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
-John
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