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

[Tony Nelson]

At 4:39 PM -0500 11/29/06, seth vidal wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:02 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>> It would be a good idea to find out how many Fedora users have corrupt RPM
>> databases.  My rpm_verifydb package at
>> <http://georgeanelson.com/rpm-verifydb.htm> is a start, but it won't report
>> problems back to you guys.  ISTM that if yum were to (possibly temporarily)
>> verify the RPM database with the only tool available in RPM, "rpm
>> --verifydb" (or its synonym "rpmdb_verify"), and then report only broken
>> databases to Fedora, that this would not be the sort of privacy invasion
>> that is causing so much angst.  If RPM's developer, Jeff Johnson, is
>> correct, you won't receive any reports, and the issue can be dropped.  See
>> the thread I started at Redhat's rpm-list, "SUG: Automatic RPM database
>> verification and repair", for his take on the whole matter.
>>
>> If you want me to do some of this, ask.
>
>Tony,
> We'd like for the problem to be fixed 'correctly' where correctly means
>not just papering over it.
 ...

Measuring a problem does not paper over it.  You did not understand my
post.  Please ask me about anything in it that is unclear.
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