On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:03 -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote: > Hello all, > > The man page for "rpm --rebuild", with rather excessive > terseness, says: > > > [...] use --rebuilddb to rebuild the database indices > > from the installed package headers. > > I want to backup the "rpm database". Presumably I > do not need to backup the "database indices" since > they are recreated by rpm --rebuild. > > Can some translate "rpm database" and "database indices" > into filenames? Thanks. > > [P.S., I quickly scanned the Max RPM book, especially > chapters 6 and 7 and did not find an answer there though > it is a long book and I may have missed it.] I thought the answer was simple. The rpm databases are named: /var/lib/rpm/__db.00x where x =1,2,3,4 However I notice there are other files called: /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2702/__db.00x where x=1,2,3 I have never seen them before but they seem to be related to rpm --rebuilddb -- ======================================================================= PCMCIA slave driver ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
