(rpm)db 5.2 files

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On 16.05.2015 00:29, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> On May 15, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
>
>> i'm writing code to make minimal chroot of pld.
>>
>> how to get rid of these files in safe manner, so they would not be missed, or not needing any kind of rpm db rebuild, /bin/rpm is just ready to be used:
>>
>> /var/lib/rpm/log/log.0000000001
>> /var/lib/rpm/__db.001
>> ...
>>
>>
>> i invoked:
>>
>> # db5.2_load -r lsn /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>>
>>
>> but that did not remove the files.
>>
> Good: you are removing LSN's before copying Packages.
>
> Note that log.* and __db.* files are not portable, having both bdbversion and arch-specific info.
as it's arch specific chroot, portability is not an issue ;)
but nevertheless i don't want tmp files in chroot tarball which gets 
placed to various systems.

> A --rebuilddb will recreate indices and regenerate log/* entries from rebuilding the indices
there's no good way to embed post actions to static tarball. so i try to 
avoid executing any commands after unpacking.
therefore not even removing /var/lib/rpm contents, just leaving at some 
usable state.


-- 
glen