Re: RPM and db3

2003-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Paul M Foster wrote: > I had the same problem, and I searched the archives back for six months, > and this is about the answer given every time. > > I gotta tell ya, folks, this is a lame answer. You've deliberately > included a _broken_ package in Debian, which is just dumb for the most > technic

Re: RPM and db3

2003-02-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:39:46PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:31:06PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > GOOD $DEITY. Do not ever, ever, EVER use rpm on a Debian system. If > > you really, truly cannot get a .deb or tarball of the package, then use > > alien to convert the R

Re: RPM and db3

2003-02-09 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:31:06PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:34:23AM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > > When I try to run rpm to install an RPM package (yeah, I know), I get > > the following errors, and rpm does nothing: > > > > error: Cannot open Packages index using db3

Re: RPM and db3

2003-02-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:34:23AM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > When I try to run rpm to install an RPM package (yeah, I know), I get > the following errors, and rpm does nothing: > > error: Cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory > (2) > error: Cannot open Packages datab

RPM and db3

2003-02-02 Thread Paul M Foster
When I try to run rpm to install an RPM package (yeah, I know), I get the following errors, and rpm does nothing: error: Cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: Cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm This is Debian 3.0r1, with rpm, libdb3 and most other