Hi,

This issue I am facing is with rpm-5.1.9.
When an installation is tried with --root, the local rpmdb is referred
leading to a situation which is similar to an upgrade scenario.
This causes the rpmdb to be updated with lesser number of rpms than the
number of rpms actually installed.

I tried the same operation without --root, but with a different --dbpath to
see if local rpmdb gets accessed.
I do not see reference to local rpmdb in such a case.

Any help in this regard would be appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,
Bishwajit


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:00 PM, bishwajit goswami <
bswjt.callmebish@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>



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