Re: so has anyone installed RH8 yet ? (fwd)

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Given our recent discussion of rpm breakage, I thought some of you
might be interested in this.

I did notice that none of these mentioned total, complete database
corruption like I had once...  Maybe that was a fluke.

----- Forwarded message -----

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 04:50, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> 
> I was considering it until rpm ate the rpm database on my laptop
> somehow.  One of the guys in my users group told me the same thing
> happened to him.
> 

I too have hit this problem.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74726
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73097
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73134
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68056

The workaround seems to be removing the __* files from the rpm folder,
but this will be an ugly thing to explain to folks when they need to use
rpm, for example when an updated rpm is issued.

----- End forwarded message -----

Steve
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