rpm 5.4.10 for testing in th-test

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On Sep 7, 2012, at 7:15 AM, Jan Rękorajski <baggins at pld-linux.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 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

Holler on <rpm-devel at rpm5.org> or at launchpad.net/rpm
if/when you need help or have questions.

hth

73 de Jeff