Re: Whoops, trashed my RPM database going to 4.0

[Leon Miller <ichthys flinet com>]

Chris Garrigues wrote:

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> I just upgraded 82 packages to the RawHide version including RPM.  I had been
> running 3.0.5 and am now running 4.0.  I upgraded a whole slew of packages and
> afterwards 'rpm -qa' returned nothing.  I ran 'rpm --rebuilddb' and it didn't
> help.  I then finally looked at the email annoucning rpm-4.0 and saw that it
> said I should install rpm and popt together.  I realized that I hadn't
> upgraded popt (might have been nice if it had told me there was a dependency),
> so I installed it (with a -nodeps flag).  Now 'rpm -qa' tells me that the only RPM
> I have installed is popt.
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> Should I just reinstall everything on top of itself or is there an easier way
> to dig myself out of this hole?
>
> Chris
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You find out how to do this and let me know.  I have been wrestling with trying to
upgrade the modules and the kernel using the rpms.  every time I install the new
kernel the system panics.



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