rpm database corruption (again)

Pascal Bleser pascal.bleser at skynet.be
Mon Mar 5 05:55:03 PST 2007


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Neal Becker wrote:
> I'd almost given up on smart.  Running on fedora fc6.  I'd do
> smart upgrade --update
> 
> And almost daily I'd have a broken rpm database.  Fixing it is painful.
> 
> The last several days I've been running 
> 
> smart update
> smart upgrade
> 
> As 2 separate steps.  So far I haven't seen any problem.  Could there be a 
> relation?

No. And I use smart every day on several SUSE boxes, never had RPM
corruptions. And never heard about RPM DB corruptions caused by smart on
SUSE since.. eh.. many months.

Are you also using yum ? That's a much more likely candidate ;)

cheers
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