On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:42:37 -0500, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Bernhard Rosenkränzer wrote:
>> trying to install a new system into a chroot jail currently fails:
>> # rpm -r /mnt/dest -ivh /RPMS/*.rpm
>> rpm: rpmdb.c:254:dbiOpen: Assertion `__dbapi == 3 || __dbapi == 4'
>> failed.
> 
> The path to the macros file is usually the cause of the failure.

Probably not in this particular case...

/usr/lib/rpm/macros and /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d are both there,
/usr/lib/rpm/macros has %_dbapi 3 set, and rpm (same binary) looks into
that file on an installed system.

ttyl
bero