On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:19:56PM +0100, amircea@libertysurf.fr wrote:
Don't misunderstand me, I did not think about messing with the rpm database. I only wonder why does rpm ignore the system database /var/lib/locatedb, which is complete, can be updated and interrogated at will. I seem to remember from the times I was using slackware that it had a script for installing the binary tarballs, this script looked what files existed in the system (there was no database at that time), then told you that such and such file was missing. It seems to me that rpm could do that too, instead of sticking to its own database which is not complete.
Perhaps you could suggest that to Red Hat so that they can include it in the next version of RPM. Victor Cardona