Re: Partial FC6 upgrade?

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On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 11:56 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Tony Nelson wrote:
>  > I'm thinking the problem might be from the puplet interfering with
> >> ongoing transactions which is killing the rpm databases. This is a
> >> WAG so I really will have to disable the puplet applet and note if
> >> database corruption is ongoing or not present any longer.
>   ...
> 
> > I as well am slightly suspicious of puplet (and pirut), though they should
> > be using RPM and not be able to introduce such issues.  I'll just keep my
> > eyes on the database; I may add a nightly cron task to do this if I can be
> > sure of handling locking issues.
> 
> I am now applying updates via the puplet applet and seeing if the 
> corruption issue will cease. As past practices, I use yum from a root 
> shell mostly. Everything seems to install fine when using the puplet to 
> launch pup. I did have a problem with control-center not installing 
> because of a scriptlet error. This is with current development which is 
> pretty stable and with few conflicting packages at present.
> 
> Please inform of what the automatic updates do for you.
> 
I am sure the developers and testers would appreciate knowing of
problems encountered when running rawhide (development tree).  

I am also sure that since most on this list are NOT running rawhide it
is unlikely that you will get a lot of help here with packages that are
not yet released.

Please take this discussion to the testing list.
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> 
> 
> > This command verifies the various RPM database files:
> > 
> >     []# ( cd /var/lib/rpm ; for name in `find . ! -name '__db*' -type f -print` ; do echo "$name" ; /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify "$name" ; done )
> 
> I ran this and ended up with the below output with no out of the 
> ordinaty output (Except the files listed below. Do I read these files 
> after running the script or expect output if something is incorrect?
> 
> ./Conflictname
> ./Basenames
> ./Triggername
> ./Packages
> ./Pubkeys
> ./Name
> ./Requirename
> ./Group
> ./Installtid
> ./Sigmd5
> ./Provideversion
> ./Providename
> ./Sha1header
> ./Dirnames
> ./Filemd5s
> ./Requireversion
> 
> Then I get back to the shell prompt. (as root)
> Jim
> 
> -- 
> Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
> 


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