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Bug 8993

Summary: rpm --rebuild nukes database !!!!!
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Hans de Goede 2000-01-30 21:31:32 UTC 
"rpm --rebuild" gives the following output:
temporary database /var/lib/rpm already exists
error creating directory /var/lib/rpm: File exists

And then continues, this results in the database being rebuild on top of
the exisisting one, resulting in a double database. rpm -q foo gives 2x
foo, and rpm -e foo says that foo desribes multiple packages ;|

I had to re install to get things fixed ;|

This is a severe bug!!
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-31 16:03:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8752 ***