rpm 5.4.10 for testing in th-test

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> > Brand new rpm 5.4.10 will be available for testing in th-test later 
> > today. It has not been installed on our infrastructure yet, there is 
> > no poldek for it on ftp[1], but we need it to be publicly available 
> > before making it our new package manager. So, please test if it works 
> > as expected and is compatible with our current rpm. Instalation 
> > instructions:
> > 
> > 0) backup rpm database in /var/lib/rpm
> > 1) rpm -Fvh rpm* (obviously)
> > 2) run /usr/lib/rpm/bin/dbconvert
> > 3) run rpm --rebuilddb
> That's the basic recipe for converting, yes.
> 
> However, --rebuilddb is largely obsolete in rpm-5.3.x
> and isn't likely to "fix" anything. Instead
> 	cd /var/lib/rpm
> 	dbXY_recover -ev

It shouldn't be a big problem to implement running that command as 
--rebuilddb, right?

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