[WBEL-users] Re: wbel-u] yum problems - correction without reboot.

John Morris jmorris at beau.org
Sun Mar 13 08:53:09 CST 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:35, R P Herrold wrote:

> Goodness -- This issue, its cause, and its solution are so old 
> it has whiskers; the following URL has been the title URL of 
> #rpm on freenode for over a year.  See:
>     http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/
> for a discusson.

Of course the question of why RPM hasn't been fixed to automatically
detect this condition and rebuild the indexes is one best left to the
philosophers.  :)  After all, this problem has been biting people in the
butt for over a year now.

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