Fix Broken RPM System?

[Ryan R. La Mothe]

Look, I don't care to see how much of an ass the universe can be about trying to solve specific Linux distribution problems, hence the "geekness" factor means jackshi* to me.  Two people on this list did give a little bit of an idea where to find an answer, and I appreciate that, but I found it by searching Google.  What Redhat needs to is a simple, easy to use place where people do not have to spend hours wading through a mailing list or spending wasted hours searching Google (read:  I have more important things to do with my day than spend 6+ hours trying to find out how to properly rebuild an RPM database) to find answers to common problems such as RPM.


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robert
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 9:16 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Fix Broken RPM System?


Ryan R. La Mothe wrote:
> Who would you send it to in order to add the information to an online FAQ that is accessible without searching a mailing list?  That is the person I want to talk to (and send the information on RPM database recover to).  Thanks.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of slim
> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 5:03 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: Fix Broken RPM System?
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> On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 04:25, Ryan R. La Mothe wrote:
> 
>>That's interesting.  I just deleted the damn file.
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>>Thank you.  I'm not going to buy that after all of these years, a list of the most common types of RPM troubleshooting solutions isn't available somewhere, production quality or not.
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> <snip>

And you would have those on this list believe that those in search of a 
solution to their problem would be better served by having to read 
through page after page after page of a FAQ than by kickin' back while 
their computer searched this mailing list for an answer?

If that's the case, why not simply:
[rj at mavis rj]$ man rpm | lpr
and read through the page after page after page of printer output?

AAMOF, I just did a quick search of the archives for THIS mailing list
(at news://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general)
using the Mozilla search tool to find subjects having "rpm" AND "error". 
The first hit that did not also contain "yum" was a question posted on 
  27 Nov 2003 02:01:08 GMT. The 2nd hit was a concise and correct answer 
to the poster's (and your) problem and was posted on 27 Nov 2003 
10:43:03 GMT.

The point is, it's usually lots easier and less frustrating to use the 
tools at your disposal than to launch a crusade for some arguably better 
tool. Refer to the recent discussion ratcheer about fdisk vs &^$#* Disk 
Druid.

Robert


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