[fedora-java] default .db for gij

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Fri Mar 11 18:14:04 UTC 2005


Phil Muldoon writes:
 > On the central db idea (as opposed to having each application having
 > their own db), what happens on a partial disk failure, and e2fsck can't
 > recover inodes that belong to the db? Reinstall all gcj built rpms?

No.  Whenever an rpm is installed, the %post should *rebuild* the db
from each application's db.  It's just a cache.

 > Also, where would you put it? I imagine it would have to go somewhere
 > on root say /usr/lib? If you put it, I dunno, in /var or somewhere like
 > that, a mount failure would render all gcj apps back to fall back to
 > interpretated.

/var/cache/somewhere sounds like a good idea for the central db.

Andrew.




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