Hi Jeff,

Thanks for looking into this issue.
I have looked at the output and I find a few things confusing:
While the rpm installation is over a new partition specified by --root, the
rpm installation during its flow refers to the current rpmdb for a few
databases as below (partition being prepared is /partprep, current rpmdb is
available at /rpmdb/lib/rpm):
D: opening  db index       /partprep/rpmdb/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42
D: running pre-transaction scripts
D: computing 214 file fingerprints
D: pool ht:     created size 64 limit -1 flags 0
Preparing...                D: computing file dispositions
D: opening  db index      * /rpmdb/lib/rpm/Basenames* create mode=0x42

Such databases include:
Triggername
Group
Providename
Requirename
Dirnames
Requireversion
Provideversion
Installtid,....etc.

Going by this output, I renamed the current rpmdb and triggered the same
command for rpm installation on the new partition.
This time, the installation was proper and query returned successfully all
the installed rpms.

Do let me know the reason for this behavior and if there is a fix available.

Regards,
Bishwajit



On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <n3npq@me.com> wrote:

>
> On Dec 12, 2013, at 12:34 PM, bishwajit goswami wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a partition up and running with a set of RPMs. Now I want to
> prepare a backup partition with the same set of rpms. The installation goes
> through properly and the corresponding files are available on the alternate
> partition.
> The problem comes when querying the rpmdb of the created partition. The
> rpmdb do not seem to be updated with all the packages which were installed.
> A sample snapshot is below:
> [sysadmin-vm:0_RP0:/mnt/rpm/calvados]$ rpm -ivh --nodeps --root /partprep
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.*
> Preparing...
> ##################################################
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.sc
> ##################################################
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.all
> ##################################################
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.lc
> ##################################################
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.rp
> ##################################################
> [sysadmin-vm:0_RP0:/mnt/rpm/calvados]$ rpm -qa --root /partprep
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.rp-5.2.0.01I-Default.x86_64
> ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.lc-5.2.0.01I-Default.x86_64
> [sysadmin-vm:0_RP0:/mnt/rpm/calvados]$
>
> When I check the double verbose output, I simply see that a few packages
> got remove from addition to corresponding rpmdb files.
> D: removing "ncs6k-sysadmin-boot.sc" from Name index.
> D: removing 19 entries from Basenames index.
> D: removing
> "Calvados/ncs6k-sysadmin-boot/ncs6k-sysadmin/sc/Default/mandatory/PII
>
> Any suggestion would be helpful in this regard. If needed, I could attach
> the verbose output.
> Also, the rpmdb do not seem to be corrupt since rpm verification runs
> smoothly.
>
>
> If you actually used -i (rather than -U), then rpm should _NOT_ have
> removed anything.
>
> The likeliest explanation is that there is an Obsoletes: in some package
> that is causing a package to be removed.
>
> Examine the -vv output ... everything that rpm does is logged in -vv output
> (but there isn't enough information to guess the cause from what you
> provided).
>
> 73 de Jeff
>
>
> --
> Bishwajit Goswami
>
>
>


-- 
Bishwajit Goswami
Software Engineer,
Cisco Systems India Pvt. Lmited
Bangalore