On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, John Walker wrote:
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#L28
41), 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.
It reads the data records, ignoring any indexes, and creates a new
database from scratch. While reading the data records, it discards
those that fail basic sanity checks.
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Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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