[Yum] Yum and RH AS 2.1

[Miguel Armas]

On Thursday 30 October 2003 16:41, Chris Chabot wrote:
> Did you do a
>
>     # rpm --root=/home/kk --initdb
>
> before all of this?
>
> Sounds like you do have a Packages database (created since u installed
> packages), but never did a --initdb (which creates the Packages db, plus
> all those others)

Yes, I did. But it only created the Packages database (not the others):
[root at gate root]# rm -rf /home/kk/*
[root at gate root]# ls -l /home/kk/
total 0
[root at gate root]# rpm --root=/home/kk/ --initdb
[root at gate root]# ls -l /home/kk/var/lib/rpm/
total 280
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8192 Oct 30 17:06 __db.001
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1310720 Oct 30 17:06 __db.002
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       360448 Oct 30 17:06 __db.003
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        12288 Oct 30 17:06 Packages

Then I install something:
[root at gate root]# yum --installroot=/home/kk install setup
Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit
error: cannot open Basenames index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
setup 100 % done
error: cannot open Group index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Requirename index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Conflictname index using db3 - No such file or directory 
(2)
error: cannot open Dirnames index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Requireversion index using db3 - No such file or directory 
(2)
error: cannot open Provideversion index using db3 - No such file or directory 
(2)
error: cannot open Installtid index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Sigmd5 index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Sha1header index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Filemd5s index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Triggername index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
Installed:  setup.noarch
Transaction(s) Complete

And I get some more rpm databases:
[root at gate root]# ls /home/kk/var/lib/rpm/
Conflictname  __db.002  Name      Providename
__db.001      __db.003  Packages  Pubkeys

If I install another package:
[root at gate root]# yum --installroot=/home/kk install filesystem
Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit
error: cannot open Basenames index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
filesystem 100 % done
error: cannot open Group index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Requirename index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Dirnames index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Requireversion index using db3 - No such file or directory 
(2)
error: cannot open Provideversion index using db3 - No such file or directory 
(2)
error: cannot open Installtid index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Sigmd5 index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Sha1header index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Filemd5s index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Triggername index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
Installed:  filesystem.noarch
Transaction(s) Complete
[root at gate root]# ls /home/kk/var/lib/rpm/
Conflictname  Name  Packages  Providename  Pubkeys

Could it be that it's just a warning because that database didn't exist, but 
the databases are created automagically by installing packages that uses 
them? So if I keep installing packages it should work?... 
Hmm, I'll try...

How can I FORCE the creation of all the rpm databases?

Salu2!
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Miguel Armas <kuko at maarmas.com>
Consultor de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
Ing. Tec. de Telecomunicaciones
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