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+ <B>Thomas Backlund</B>
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+ <I>Wed Apr 18 18:58:55 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>18.04.2012 19:49, Anne Wilson skrev:
+&gt;<i> On 18/04/12 17:41, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> In desperation I tried &quot;rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/*&quot; - I hope I
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> haven't broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to have
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> changed. The database will still not rebuild.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
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+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> This part you should _never_ do...
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> You wiped _all_ of rpms databases and any tracking of what is
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> installed or not.
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+</I>&gt;<i> OK, apologies. Doesn't rebuilding the database replace that?
+</I>&gt;<i>
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+Nope, as the info used to rebuild the database is also stored there :/
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+If you want to restore the database at this point you need to reinstall
+all packages as listed in /var/log/rpmpkgs with --replacepkgs
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+or do a reinstall
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+--
+Thomas
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