On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:25:39 -0500, Eric Warnke wrote:
Frank Schmitt wrote:
>I don't really understand the consequences: Does this mean, e.g.
>rpm -qi foo will not work anymore? BTW: There are quite many people out
>there who don't like yum and up2date but use apt instead.
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That will still work fine if foo is installed. All they are removng is
the pre-built package database.
For people that just have to have the oly functionality they can build
the database with rpm -i --justdb --dbpath /path/to/db /path/to/all/RPMS/*
More options are needed, at least --noscripts --notriggers, and an
added rpm --initdb --dbpath ... first.