rpmdb and /var filesystem corruption in F7+

[orion at cora.nwra.com]

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:01:38AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
>> I have a lot of problems with rpmdb corruption occurring during
>> (network) installs since around February 2007, and with yum updates
>> afterwards.  I've reported the problem here
>> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230362>.
>
> One shred of evidence that seems to point in this direction is that
> I haven't seen this corruption occur on any of my ARM systems since
> we started mlock()ing the RPM database environment into memory:
>
> 	http://fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/diffs-f/rpm-4.4.2.1-10.fc8/rpm-4.4.2-always-mlock.patch
>

I re-spun F7 using pungi and rpm-4.4.2.1-1.fc7 rebuilt with this patch. 
Still got corruption on the first yum install after rebooting the
installed system.  This seems pretty common these days.  I'll try
respinning F8 with the equivalent, but I'm not terribly optimistic.

Would I need to rebuild anaconda with the new rpm-devel?  Not sure if I'm
dealing with dynamic or static linking here (I see that rpm-devel does
ship  .a's).

- Orion