Re: Check RPM database?

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 19:29 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 6:53 PM -0500 11/15/06, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
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Tony Nelson writes:

Is there a way to check the RPM database for validity? I know how to
rebuild it, and where it is stored, and that when yum says that the
database is corrupt that I must do something about it, but is there a way
to test it before total failure?

Well, "rpm -q -a -V" is going to go and read pretty much all the bits in the
rpm database. If something's busted, you're likely going to hit it.

rpm -Va checks the possibly corrupt database's opinion of the filesystem,
and may be considered a check on the database's accuracy. If RPM doesn't
crash while doing it, nothing much is proved about its validity.

Is there a tool or command to check the RPM database for being corrupt?
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There are a lot of tools in /usr/lib/rpm/
they are supposed to be called by passing various options to rpm itself.
But you can use them directly as well. In your case you could use
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify
you have to give this command the name of the db file to verify.
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