mock rpmdb version issue with epel-5-i386 target

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Sep 14 17:13:01 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 12:26 -0400, Mike McLean wrote:
> It is unfortunate that this incompatibility was introduced in rpm, but 
> it was for a good reason -- sha256 sums replaced semi-insecure md5sums. 

Note that you'll have rpmdb mismatches even when creating an EL5 chroot
on EL5, if you create an i386 chroot on an x86_64 host.  Just that
difference is enough to cause rpmdb mismatches.  A work around if you
must work within the chroot is to remove the db cache, rm
-f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

-- 
Jesse Keating
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