rpm 5.4.10 for testing in th-test

Jan Rękorajski baggins at pld-linux.org
Fri Sep 7 22:37:28 CEST 2012


On Fri, 07 Sep 2012, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:

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

I'm getting the following message repeated many times when
(un)installing packages:

==> warning: tag 1029 type(0x1) != implicit type(0x20002)

should I be worried?

Also %post(un) scriptlets seem to not being run - even something as
simple as '%post -p /sbin/ldconfig'.

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Jan Rękorajski                                 | PLD/Linux
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