SUG: Automatic RPM database verification and repair

Tom Horsley tomhorsley at adelphia.net
Wed Nov 29 22:34:00 UTC 2006


On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:40:50 -0500
Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:

> RPM's developer, Jeff Johnson, believes that RPM database corruption is so
> extremely rare that it is not worth checking for

What drugs is he doing? :-). I've often considered making backup copies
of the database before running any rpm command just so I could
restore it when it gets busted.




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