database mess up

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:49 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>>>> http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Docs/RpmRecovery
>>>> OK, but /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_sta is not part of rpm for fedora !
>>>> Regards
>>> ----
>>> indeed - they seem to have removed the db4 utilities from rpmdb
>>
>> Rpm in F10 no longer uses an internal copy of db4 so this isn't
>> practical to do anymore.
>>
>>> even worse, I installed db4-utils package and ran...
>>>
>>> # cd /var/lib/rpm
>>> # db_dump Packages
>>> db_dump: Program version 4.7 doesn't match environment version 4.5
>>> db_dump: DB_ENV->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version
>>> mismatch
>>>
>>> which means that I can't use db4-utils to do anything with rpmdb on
>>> Fedora 10
>>
>> Use the db45_foo variants instead, eg db45_dump
> ----
> good to know...do I gather that you have little faith for the...
>
> db45_dump /var/lib/rpm/Packages.old \
> | db45_load /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>
> mechanics to suggest that he essentially download every package and
> re-add them to --justdb which seems like a rather Herculean task?

I got the impression from Patrick's earlier messages that --rebuilddb 
ended up with a partial database. If that's the case ... well, db_dump & 
db_load cannot bring back data if it's not in the db anymore. Otherwise, 
attempting the dump+load doesn't hurt anything of course.

 	- Panu -