Hi John,
Now that's interesting! And so disappointing. This kind of problems is nothing
good to get new Linux users, especially (near)computer-illiterate ones (the
upgrade of a software should be so smooth and straight forward... particularly
the packages manager package of a system -- well, isn't it ironic that the use
of a specialized software to upgrade itself corrupts itself -- ;-) )! Anyway, I
found something interesting, but I haven't tried it yet. Here is the URL :
http://lufog.dhs.org/lufog_archive/0009/0033.html
It's a solution from Jeff Johnson that looks worth trying it. It's from the
Rpm-list mailing list and is very descriptive.
Thanks for pointing this out,
Etienne
John MacLean wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Etienne Larrivee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 4:00 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: RPM 4 database gone
> >
> >
> > Hi Marco,
> >
> > I am using Redhat 6.2. I had RPM 3.0.4-0.48 installed, since
> > that's the version
> > that came with my distribution CD. I tried upgrading to
> > version 4.0.0.67.6x of
> > RPM, and then tried 'rpm -qa' and saw that my installed
> > packages disapeared.
> >
> > It's kind of straight forward, maybe my rpm command to
> > upgrade wasn't correct.
> > I don't remember what I used, but I guess it was something
> > like 'rpm -U rpm...'
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Etienne
> >
> >
>
> I recall a thread (I think on zoot-list) about moving from rpm 3.0.4 to
> 4.0.x. Going from 3.0.4 to 4.0 was certain disaster. From 3.0.4 to 3.0.5 to
> 4.0 was the only possible way. IIRC, even then it wasn't 100% reliable and
> some recommended staying at 3.0.5 (it would work with rpm's made with 3.0
> and 4.0 or something like that, so not worth the 3.0.5 -> 4.0 risk). Check
> out the archives or maybe someone else remembers exactly what was discussed.
>
> John
>
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