corrupt rpmdb in mock-chroot

[Paul B Schroeder]

On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 22:16 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Paul B Schroeder
> <paul.schroeder at bluecoat.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Rebuilding the rpm database seems to fix this, but it's a pain to be
> > sure.  Any ideas as to why I'm seeing this corruption when creating an
> > i386 mock chroot from a x86_64 system?
> 
> This is normal and expected.  You created the rpmdb with x86_64 rpm,
> and are accessing it with i386 rpm.  The Berkeley DB format is
> different based on the arch of the creating machine, therefore
> generates the database differently on the two platforms.  If I plan on
> doing anything in a chroot (especially a non-native arch one) other
> than building a SRPM, the first thing that happens is to rm -f
> /var/lib/rpm/__db*.  Don't worry, this got me the first time too (and
> is fatal to a pungi compose) :)
Ah..  I see..  I would think there would be some way to tell it to
create the DB in i386 format though?  Is there an environment variable
or something that can be set?