Creating Rpm database

[Mark Farmer]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>You could try rpm --rebuilddb
>>That should build a new database
> 
> 
> No, it won't do that in this case. The manual page contains a hint why it
> won't work.
> 

Good point :-)

Extract from the rpm man page:

use --rebuilddb to rebuild the database indices from the installed package headers.

The headers are obviously in /var/lib/rpm - I guess the file 'Sha1header' is the one 
in question?

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Mark Farmer
Linux System Administrator

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