Re: smart package manager upchucking

["Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang rupprecht+gnus200704 gmail com>]

Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net> writes:
> I've now cleaned out teh /var/lib/rpm/__db* files and ran rebuilddb twice 
> now, but starting smart --gui, and asking it to update me get this in the 
> log window:

Does "yum update" work correctly?  If it also objects, it would point
to some rpm db problem.

There seems to be a bug that leaves the rpm db scrambled.  It happened
a year ago and a month ago.  The first time the db was permanently
scrambled and I just waited till FC6 came out to reinstall from
scratch.  The second time rebuilddb seemed to fix everything up well
enough to allow "yum update" to work.  I always did wonder if I was
missing something.  Oh well, come f7 I'll reinstall from scratch again
and that problem will be swept under the rug.

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht                http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/