[suse-sles-e] Clearing and re-building RPM databases.

From: Michael James (Michael.James_at_csiro.au)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2006 - 09:17:28 CEST

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From: Michael James <Michael.James@csiro.au>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:17:28 +1000
Message-Id: <200606051717.28555.Michael.James@csiro.au>
Subject: [suse-sles-e] Clearing and re-building RPM databases.

I want to short cut a SLES9 install
by copying an existing machine to one still running SuSE9.1

It's identical hardware so there are no module problems.

I even have spare partitions to rsync in root and boot.

But the new (when it wakes up) machine
will inherit the old one's /var partition.
And in there are the RPM databases and other stuff.

The existing databases will describe the old 9.1 set of packages
not the SLES9 ones actually present from being copied across.

Can I fix any RPM confusion just by saying rpm --rebuilddb ?

Can I rm a directory in /var and get it re-built somehow?

If I have to bring stuff over from the other machine,
what in var needs to be brought?

TIA,
michaelj

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Here's some edited output from  df
# This is the current root and boot
/dev/sda5             16449988   3866984  12583004  24% /
/dev/sda2                31109      6464     23039  22% /boot
# This is the once and future root and boot
/dev/sda6             16449988   4264392  12185596  26% /altOS
/dev/sda3                31109      7455     22048  26% /altOS/boot
# The rest are used by both, whichever is active.  By naming root
# GRUB determines which set (5,2 or 6,3) are mounted on /
# Home is no problem it carries the users files across.
/dev/sdb4            714091544 592016108 122075436  83% /home
# tmp is no problem, it gets cleared.
/dev/sda9             16441988     62752  16379236   1% /tmp
# var is tricky, some things like web logs can span the upgrade,
#  some things like RPM DBs are specific to a release.
/dev/sda8             20136788   5165156  14971632  26% /var
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