SUG: RPM database verification / repair, nightly and in Anaconda

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:50 PM -0500 11/19/06, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>Tony Nelson writes:
>
>> I propose that there should be a nightly cron task to check the RPM
>
>I proposed this several years ago, and got poo-poohed.

Well, did you offer to write it for them? :)


>I now just have a cron.daily script that just makes a copy of /var/lib/rpm
>on a five day rotation.

I'm putting something of that sort into the script, saving the last 2 good
ones.  (Not like logrotate, which rotates the logs weekly whether they need
it or not, so a month or so later all the data is lost.)
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