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

[Tony Nelson]

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

OK, now I've been pooh-poohed as well.


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

You might take a look at my rpm_verifydb package at
<http://georgeanelson.com/rpm-verifydb.htm>, as it only saves the RPM
database if it passes "rpm --verifydb".
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