Bug 152693

Summary: rpm doesnt update properly on rh8
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Description David Lawrence 2005-03-30 23:24:13 UTC 
The rpm in legacy-utilities for rh8 seems to leave the rpm db in an inconsistent
state.

After configuring yum for fedora legacy per instructions on the download page 

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
 
 
[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch
 
[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch
 
[legacy-utils]
name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch

This is a redhat 8.0 box :-


yum updated rpm :-

tail -100 /var/log/yum.log.2
03/18/04 02:09:20 Installed: kernel-smp.i686
03/18/04 02:09:20 Updated: rpm.i386
03/18/04 02:09:20 Updated: rpm-devel.i386
03/18/04 02:09:20 Updated: rpm-build.i386
03/18/04 02:09:20 Updated: popt.i386
03/18/04 02:09:20 Updated: slocate.i386
03/18/04 02:09:20 Updated: cvs.i386
03/18/04 02:09:20 Updated: tcpdump.i386
03/18/04 02:09:20 Updated: rpm-python.i386

yum update then wouldnt run with the following errors :-

yum update
 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8
 error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)


I asked about it on #rpm and the response was :-

jbj_hiho> lancelan: you've straddled db-4.0.14 db-4.1.25 forward compat
boundary. see /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_loadcvt script.

I ran that script and it apparently updated the rpom dbs because yum worked again.

I think the rpm is meant to do something similar in the %post ...



------- Additional Comments From marcdeslauriers 2004-09-18 17:29:46 ----

Red Hat Linux 8.0 support has been suspended. This bug is being closed.



------- Bug moved to this database by dkl 2005-03-30 18:24 -------

This bug previously known as bug 1437 at https://bugzilla.fedora.us/
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1437
Originally filed under the Fedora Legacy product and General component.

Unknown priority P2. Setting to default priority "normal".
Unknown platform PC. Setting to default platform "All".
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.