Re: rpm --rebuilddb does not remove duplicate entries

[Seth Vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> You mean why doesn't --rebuilddb remove duplicates? Because that was
> never a feature, had to be implemented to fix some other problem in
> a pre-release version of rpm, I fergit.

ah.
> Try doing
> 	rpm --rebuilddb --define '%_filterDbDups 1'
>
host:# rpm --rebuilddb --define '%_filterDbDups 1'
error: Macro % has illegal name (%define)
error: Macro % has illegal name (%define)

so I did:

host:# rpm --rebuilddb --define '_filterDbDups 1'

no joy.

-sv