XFree86 lib problems

[Andy Green]

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On Saturday 17 April 2004 21:59, Theodore Omtzigt wrote:

Hi Theodore -

>   That is kinda scary... I see a couple of __db.001, __db.002 etc laying
> around so I assume that your action item #1 would get rid of those. I
> looked around that directory but all the files are data files so I can't
> figure out what that stuff does or is supposed to do. Can you point me
> to some documentation that explains what these files do? I don't like
> ripping stuff out without really understanding what it does.

They are some kind of temp file generated during RPM transactions.  I have 
killed them more times than I can recall, with no ill effects.  The first 
time I was as worried as you are, I moved them out to another directory so I 
could bring them back if the sky fell down.  But they were regenerated 
without comment.

I think Alexander Dalloz said they were lock files the other day, they may act 
as lock files but they are often several tens of KB or more in size, they 
clearly [also] contain stuff, probably some aggregated list of steps in the 
RPM transaction, so it can be applied to the real database in one action at 
the end if there were no messups.  (ah, look: 
http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/env/region.html but not much wiser after 
reading that.)  But whatever they are, they are safe to delete after all rpm, 
yum, up2date type processes are killed, I now do it without a second thought 
if I have weirdness from RPM and I recommend the same relaxed attitude to 
you ;-)

- -Andy

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