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

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On Oct 22, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Elan Ruusamäe <glen at pld-linux.org> wrote:

> On 22.10.2012 04:46, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>> There are too may possible causes to hazard a guess, including
>> a well documented difference in behavior detected by Mancoosi years
>> ago, and also identifying precisely what metadata (and
>> what rpm version was used to build all the packages).
> 
> rpm version used to build the package (http://carme.pld-linux.org/~glen/ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm):
> 
> # rpm -q --yaml ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm -p | grep Rpmversion
>  Rpmversion: 4.5
> 
> that package installs fine on other host. i'm suspecting local db error. anything else to dig from there?
> 

If rpm/os software are identical, and *.rpm input is the same, then
I would suspect the local db as well. One does have to ensure
that the installed package manifests are "sufficiently similar"
(and that might mean "identical manifest" for a database retrieval
loop error).

For a suspected database error in the Conflictname index,
then comparing the outputs with

/usr/lib/rpm/macros:%_dbi_config_3_Conflictname     %{_dbi_btconfig} %{?_bt_dupsort} debug

may be informative. The access patterns SHOULD be similar.

73 de Jeff