When I installed the rpm-*-3.0.5-* set I got this error message /usr/lib/rpm not empty When I do rpm -Fvvh rpm-build-3.0.5-9.5x.i386.rpm it does nothing and prints # rpm -Fvvh rpm-b* D: counting packages to install D: found 1 packages D: looking for packages to download D: retrieved 0 packages D: New Header signature D: Signature size: 149 D: Signature pad : 3 D: sigsize : 152 D: Header + Archive: 98014 D: expected size : 98014 D: opening database mode 0x42 in /var/lib/rpm I've still got lots of old stuff in /usr/lib/rpm. rpm can still list all of my packages. Is something now broken which will give me trouble in the future? D: found 0 source and 0 binary packages
Can you do strace -o /tmp/xxx rpm -Fvv rpm-build* and look at /tmp/xxx? If rpm looks like it is looping repeatedly, then try doing rpm --rebuilddb and repeat the install. If the rpm-build still does not install, please mail me <jbj> a copy of the strace output. Thanks.
Please reopen this bug if your problem is still an issue.