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Shining more light on the problem

Posted Aug 23, 2006 9:55 UTC (Wed) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: Shining more light on the problem by gdt
Parent article: Who maintains RPM?

Ouch! If I got a corrupt database everytime I hit Ctrl-C while running dpkg, I'd be pretty pissed.

Dpkg may not be perfect, but it's never ever corrupted it's database on me, and I've beaten it pretty badly over the years.

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Posted Aug 23, 2006 16:22 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]

That was a bug from long ago... and the rpm database could be repaired by using the rebuild flag. They fixed that the bug.

I'd rather not see this discussion digress into an rpm vs. dpkg thing.

Shining more light on the problem

Posted Aug 23, 2006 17:04 UTC (Wed) by anonymous21 (guest, #30106) [Link]

Let's correct that:

... the rpm database could be repaired (sometimes) by using the rebuild option...

RPM was always a fearful tool for me.

Although it has probably vastly improved since then. (redhat 6,7,8)

Mark