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Moblin and Maemo to merge

Moblin and Maemo to merge

Posted Feb 18, 2010 10:03 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Moblin and Maemo to merge by xav
Parent article: Moblin and Maemo to merge

Any corruption of the RPM database (that can't be automatically repaired) is quite scary for a mobile phone, where the user will have no chance of repairing this. A full reformat and reinstall of all apps will be needed - can only hope they have separate data backups, as a full system restore might simply recover the corrupt RPM database.

Not sure how APT/dpkg compares here, I've seen some reports of dpkg corruption that were easily recoverable from.


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