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Re: [Fwd: -qa / -qi problem]
- To: Doru Carastan <doru dot carastan at windriver dot com>
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: -qa / -qi problem]
- From: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:07:59 -0400
- Cc: Cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.
Doru,
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:53:37PM -0700, Doru Carastan wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> > In the future, please post to cygwin@cygwin.com instead of sending
> > private email so others can benefit too.
>
> I apologize for that.
No need to apologize -- the above is just my pat answer to any
unsolicited email that I receive apparently due to my postings.
> I considered it to be a better candidate for
> rpm-list@redhat.com. Their answer is posted here:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rpm-list/message/14656
Agreed, but I presume that you emailed me due to the following:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg00949.html
If so, then I would prefer to keep the responses on list to keep the
thread together and for the archives.
> > Hence, my port seems to handle -qa and -qi or not having anything
> > installed is masking problems.
>
> I'm not so sure about that. You need to make sure you have created the
> directory for _dbpath as it is listed by rpm --showrc. Then run rpm
> --initdb to create an empty database. While being here it is a good idea
> to check if _tmppath exists, otherwise any build command will fail too.
> Could you please try this and run the command sequence again?
I just tried the above and I'm getting the same results:
$ rpm -q less
error: cannot open Name index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
package less is not installed
I have the following directory structure:
$ find /var/local
/var/local
/var/local/lib
/var/local/lib/rpm
/var/local/lib/rpm/Packages # created by rpm --initdb
/var/local/tmp
Sorry, but I'm very ignorant regarding rpm. Any idea what I am doing
wrong?
Thanks,
Jason
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