Re: Bad rpmdb, where'd this come from?

[Harry Putnam <reader newsguy com>]

Tom Diehl <tdiehl@rogueind.com> writes:

>> Then running rpm -UvhF *.rpm on what was left
>
> I realize this is will not fix your problem but I am courious why you specify
> -U and -F on the same command line? I would think -U would override -F.

Probably a miss usage.  My reasoning was that I wasn't sure -F alone
would get rid of previous versions.  It has been working for me but
I've only used it in /var/spool/up2date after downloading updates so
if U is overriding F it wouldn't have bitten me in that environment.  

Thanks for the heads up, it looks like the -U would indeed override
the -F which would probably be a `bad thing' in most circumstances.

Haven't yet tried your suggested fix for the rpmdb, but will be
reporting on that shortly