Wednesday, March 12, 2008

RPM Upgrade

rpm -vv --rebuilddb

we have added the option -vv here, so that there is visible progress and lots of detail during the rebuild process -- A worried admin is often impatient at a lack of visible progress -- this option causes the rebuild process to be quite verbose

The way a rpm --rebuilddb command works, it creates a temporary directory to work in at: /var/lib/, next to the 'parent' one at: /var/lib/rpm/ and attempts a rebuild. As it gets to the very bottom of a normal rebuild, it replaces the new content over top of the old files.

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