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[Eric Warnke]

Frank Schmitt wrote:

>I don't really understand the consequences: Does this mean, e.g. 
>rpm -qi foo will not work anymore? BTW: There are quite many people out
>there who don't like yum and up2date but use apt instead.
>
>  
>

That will still work fine if foo is installed.  All they are removng is
the pre-built package database.

For people that just have to have the oly functionality they can build
the database with rpm -i --justdb --dbpath /path/to/db /path/to/all/RPMS/*

Cheers,
Eric
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