Bug 77766 – rpm -e --justdb ... stat64's a lot of files.

Bug 77766 - rpm -e --justdb ... stat64's a lot of files.

Summary:	rpm -e --justdb ... stat64's a lot of files.

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	2002-11-13 04:43 EST by Aleksey Nogin
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:48 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-12-27 16:12:11 EST
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2002-11-13 04:43:22 EST

Shouldn't "rpm -e --justdb ..." just work on the db and not look around in the fs?

Strace shows a lot of stat64 calls - both on files belonging to packages being
erased from the db and on files belonging to packages that are being kept.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-11-15 13:21:14 EST

stat64's are needed for fingerprint calculation,
necessary to compute filestate tag before adding
to the database (even with --justdb).

Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2002-11-16 12:43:07 EST

> ... before adding to the database ...

But that's my point - I was not *adding* anything - this was a -e!

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2003-12-27 16:12:11 EST

stats are needed for fingerprints on erase too.

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