Re: How to install/initialize RPM from source???

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:04:21AM -0400, fwells@olg.com wrote:
>  
> Does anybody know how to initialize the rpm database files (Basenames, etc...) 
> after building and installing RPM (latest) from source? 
>  
> rpm --initdb <-- only creates the /var/lib/rpm/Packages file. 
>  
> Interestingly, even on a working rpm system, I get the same results after  
> doing the following: 
>  
>   cd /var/lib 
>   mv rpm rpm.bak 
>   mkdir rpm 
>   rpm --initdb 
>  
> What am I missing here?  Can't find any docs that talk about initializing 
> the requisite db files. 

All the indices (i.e. everything but Packages) are initialized
when needed. Even Packages will be initialized when needed,
so --initdb is (almost, haven't cared to check) unnecessary.

73 de Jeff

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