On Mon, Jan 28, 2008, Peter Kalbus wrote:

>> On embedded, you can likely eliminate all the db_* utilities.
>>
>> Of course when something breaks, you will be flying blind.
>>
>> db_stat is useful for diagnosing locking problems.
>> db_verify is useful if you need to check that the rpmdb is intact.
>> db_dump/db_load are necessary to convert with possible format changes.
>
> okay, that makes sence.
> are these utility the same for berkeley db and sqlite databases (including
> both abstractions) or only neded for berkeley db versions?

Only for Berkeley-DB. SQLite has a single CLI under sqlite3(1), but this
is not shipped with RPM and should be already installed externally when
you are building RPM against SQLite.

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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