[fedora-java] default .db for gij

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Fri Mar 11 19:03:10 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 18:14 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>Phil Muldoon writes:
> > On the central db idea (as opposed to having each application having
> > their own db), what happens on a partial disk failure, and e2fsck can't
> > recover inodes that belong to the db? Reinstall all gcj built rpms?
>
>No.  Whenever an rpm is installed, the %post should *rebuild* the db
>from each application's db.  It's just a cache.
Does this get amortized so that you don't regenerate it for each package
in a transaction?  Otherwise are we getting O(n^2) work?

Dave Malcolm





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