FC5 rpm database corrupt [Solved]

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 23:10 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sunday June 11 2006 22:24, Claude Jones wrote:
> > Yum
> > is still not working quite right. It just supposedly updated bind and the
> > kernel and about four other packages, and when it was finished, I came up
> > with the same exact packages needing to be updated on the next try...
> 
> I seem to have prevailed. Actually, I must give credit where it's due - the 
> final clean-up was carried out by PUP. I'd been using Yumex, but had the 
> problem described just above. PUP installed the kernel and other packages, 
> and as bonus, finally updated BIND, which had been in dependency limbo for 
> about 2-3 weeks. Yumex would detect a new Bind but always fail on install for 
> dependencies. PUP is not my favorite package tool, but I must say that this 
> is the second time it's resolved a problem like this. In any event, all seems 
> to be well, now, and as far as I can tell, all packages are working...
> 
> This afternoon, I had tried PUP, and it found a bunch of packages needing 
> updating (this was much earlier in the repair process), and it went into a 
> never-ending download - it hung for 2-3 hours in the download process; no 
> error messages, and occasional indications of progress - I finally cancelled 
> out. Yumex was able to carry out the same updates, with the above mentioned 
> issues, successfully. Then, using PUP again, I was able to get the remaining 
> packages updated. I'm not quite sure how to document all this, or where I'd 
> start with bugzilla so I probably won't. Hope some of this is useful to 
> someone. 
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what is PUP ?

Craig