Should RPM check its database?

[alan]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Tony Nelson wrote:

> Should RPM check its database periodically?  (Currently I don't believe it
> does.)  It would be helpful if, say, there were a daily cron task that
> syslog'ed and / or emailed root if there were a problem with the RPM
> database.  The check appears to be pretty fast.  The following takes well
> under a minute on my old machine:

I would check for verify processes that have hung.  I have a corrupted rpm 
database on my FC6/7 box at home that hangs rpm processes that try to use 
the rpm databse.


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