Re: rawhide report: 20050207 changes
Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
Hi.
Build System <buildsys(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>rpm-4.4.1-0.18
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This made my rpm go bellyside up for the root user (normal users had no problems
making queries against the database) until I manually removed all __db* files in
/var/lib/rpm. Maybe a side effect of me using smart, I don't know.
Likely to be a side effect of smart.
Upgrading through a Berkeley DB version stamp in __db* files presumes
cooperative applications, all of which are pretty deficient.
The rpm-4.4.1 package already does "best effort" to correct the problem.
However, any application that has loaded old bindings and runs another
transaction after upgrading rpm with a Berkeley DB version change,
will instanlt recreate a __db* file with the old version stamp.
That cannot be fixed in rpmlib without some insane pokery-jiggery,
it's easier to fix applications that use rpmlib imho.
I'll poke Gustavo ...
73 de Jeff