Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:13:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Smyth <smyth@bashful.realminfo.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: "Gerald E. Bennett" <geb@silres.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RPM Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980929093810.20205H-100000@bashful.realminfo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809282347240.3140-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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Jason; RPM keeps a library of all the rpms installed, dependencies, etc... As you noticed, the /var/local/lib/rpm/packages.rpm is not there. RPM has --rebuilddb and --initdb options to rebuild and construct a rpm database. I recommend trying a --initdb if you did not already have a database going (which will be overwritten if you did). In the future if you see any corruption, you might try a --rebuilddb (rpm --rebuilddb). The --dbpath allows you to specify the path of the rpm database. So, you can do a "rpm --initdb --dbpath /var/local/lib/rpm". You might have to check to see if /var/local/lib/rpm is indeed created by the FreeBSD package install. We are certified RedHat engineers if you need anything, just let me know. Good Luck, Scott On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Gerald E. Bennett wrote: > > >I just installed Linux and RPM using the /usr/misc/ports/rmp port > > > >Now when I use rpm: > > > >bash-2.01# rpm -ivh executor-libc5-demo-2.0w-1.i386.rpm > >failed to open //var/local/lib/rpm/packages.rpm > > > >error: cannot open //var/local/lib/rpm/packages.rpm > > RPM is pretty linux specific. You may have better luck asking a linux > forum how to set it up. > > Just off the top of my head, I would say that /var/local doesn't even > exist on your FreeBSD system. This is just a guess. > > Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering > Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Scott Smyth, Senior Developer R&D (770) 446-1332 ssmyth@realminfo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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