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As someone who used Redhat since 5.0 - the RPM database never died for me. But then, I've never used 'rpm --force', which many did and I suspect was the major f
by vetinari 10y ago
As someone who used Redhat since 5.0 - the RPM database never died for me. But then, I've never used 'rpm --force', which many did and I suspect was the major factor in RPM database death.
- dozzie 10y agoI think it was more of a problem on the BerkeleyDB side than on the side of data. BDB was giving an impression of quite fragile thing back then, but it was (and AFAIK still is) the only source of data about installed packages.