Rebuilding the RPM database indexes
The RPM indexes on one of my CentOS 4.4 machines got corrupted last weekend, which caused some issues on one of the servers I was trying to update. To fix this issue, I removed the files with two underscores in /var/lib/rpm:
$ rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
And then I recreated the indexes by running rpm with the “–rebuild” option:
$ rpm –rebuild
This experience taught me a few things:
1. The package header information is stored in /var/lib/rpm/Packages
2. RPM has an “–initdb” option to initialize the RPM database
3. I really don’t care for RPM
moo on November 30th, 2006
3. I really don’t care for RPM
Lol. I remember deleting/rebuilding the RPM database, back in the day. I’ve managed to stay away from RPM-based distros since RedHat 9. NO desire to go back.