Ready for new RPM version?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Yuan Yijun wrote:

> 2009/3/5 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com>:
>>>
>>> Anyone can help me to downgrade my system to 4.6? I am stuck.
>>
>> Why, do you have any problems with 4.7-beta? It works fine for me so
>> far.
>>
>> You can download the rpm-*4.6.0*.rpm packages manually from any Rawhide
>> mirror and then:  rpm -Uvh --oldpackage rpm-*4.6.0*.rpm
>>
>
> I was going to upgrade my F10 to rawhide, so I installed rpm 4.7b1
> first. But soon I realized I need both rpm 4.7b1 build for F10 and
> rawhide. Then I give up and installed rpm 4.6, but rpm database seems
> to have changed.

Right, the gotcha here has to do with the Berkeley DB version rpm was 
built against: on F10, it's 4.5.20 and in rawhide it's 4.7.25. If nuking 
the environment ('rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*') doesn't clear that up, you'll 
need to rev back the database to db 4.5.20 with the db utils, something 
like this:
# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage rpm-*4.6.0*.rpm
# cp -avp /var/lib/rpm/ /var/lib/rpm.save/
# cd /var/lib/rpm/
# mv Packages Packages.orig
# db_dump Packages.orig db45_load Packages
# rpm --rebuilddb

 	- Panu -