updating db4 to 4.5.20

[Jindrich Novy]

Hi Kip,

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 11:16 -0500, Kip Thomas wrote:
> Does this package have something to do with the rpm database?
> My install of FC6 produces consistent breakage right after installing
> ncurses
> 
> db4 error...run database recovery
> 
> As a result, no kernel was installed and who knows what else.  Install
> never succeeded. 

RPM uses its own db present in its source tarball, so I think the update
of db4 won't help you with this problem as RPM isn't dependent at all on
the external db4.

You may want to try rpm --rebuilddb, if it won't help, file a bug
against RPM.

Jindrich

> On 10/31/06, Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I'm planning db4 update to 4.5.20 in a short time. Does
>         anybody see a
>         problem in it? (regarding quality of the upstream code, known
>         breakages
>         of this release etc.?) I tested this release together with
>         Robert Scheck 
>         in bz #198038 and it looks sane.
>         
>         Proposed new db4 package is:
>         http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/files/db4-4.5.20-1.src.rpm
>         if you want to test. 
>         
>         Rebuilds of all the db4 dependent packages will be needed and
>         db4-4.3
>         will be moved to compat-db then.
>         
>         Rawhide breakage time(TM) has come again :]
>         
>         Jindrich
>         
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