[Yum] Re: Is there a better way??

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 19:33, Tom Diehl wrote:
> > Well I talked to jeff some about this - he seemed to tell me that I
> > should indeed just rm the __db files before a write operation in yum
> > until the NPTL stuff get settled out.
> 
> Is there a downside to killing the files?? I am not aware of any but...

lock race problem. No one write process has access to the rpmdb - could
get messy if two things try to write to the rpmdb at the same time.

-sv