rpm-5.4.10-22.i686 loops forever when installing ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm

[Jan Rękorajski]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:

> Script started on Sun 21 Oct 2012 11:56:39 PM EEST
> # rpm -Uhv ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm
[...]
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname 
> thread:rdonly:auto_commit mode=0x0
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> ^CD: Exiting on signal(0x2) ...

And so it happens that the problem had nothing to do with database, see
http://git.pld-linux.org/?p=packages/rpm.git;a=commit;h=d2ec8f01d4cbb82f79d8abc51f26506a58162d9c
for gory details.

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Jan Rękorajski                                 | PLD/Linux
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