On Nov 2, 2007, at 6:10 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

> On Friday 02 of November 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
>> ===================================================================== 
>> ======
>> = $ cvs diff -u -r1.195 -r1.196 rpmdb.c
>>   --- rpm/rpmdb/rpmdb.c	22 Oct 2007 02:48:42 -0000	1.195
>>   +++ rpm/rpmdb/rpmdb.c	2 Nov 2007 03:07:46 -0000	1.196
>>   @@ -3917,7 +3917,7 @@
>>        }
>>        dbpath = rootdbpath = rpmGetPath(prefix, tfn, NULL);
>>        if (!(prefix[0] == '/' && prefix[1] == '\0'))
>>   -	dbpath += strlen(prefix) - 1;
>>   +	dbpath += strlen(prefix);
>>        tfn = _free(tfn);
>
> It looks like this part is changed over and over, adding -1,  
> stripping -1
> http://rpm5.org/cvs/filediff?f=rpm/rpmdb/rpmdb.c&v1=1.127&v2=1.128
>
> Backporting and testing...

Likely.

Again, this command has never been well implemented
     rpm --rebuilddb --root /q

The --root command became all mode, not just install modes,
rather than inventing alternative per-mode alternative option
names.

The flip-flops are likely with trailing '/' on path afaict (and recall).

The traditional and original usage case is
     rpm --rebuilddb --dbpath /q/var/lib/rpm

73 de Jeff