Re: rpm package caching

Well, looking at the code, it seems I was wrong:

"listPackages information is static between db creates/updates."

Try removing that file, then re-creating your database, and see what
happens.

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Ray Kimsey wrote:

> John,
> 
> 
> Than you for the information, but  I checked and I cannot find the package on
> the server. Where it shows up is in the packageList.gz file.  It is does not
> show up in the header directory or in the output when you create the new
> directory.  I stop the sever prior to running the create.
> 
> Ray
> 
> John Berninger wrote:
> 
> > Current should not cache any packages between database creates as of
> > 1.0.2; it doesn't have enough intelligence to do so.  The top few things
> > that come to mind to check are:
> >         1) Make sure you turned the service off when you recreated the
> > DB.
> >         2) check for any stale / stray symlinks
> >         3) check to make sure you actually deleted the RPM - I often get
> > annoyed when I rm something, it asks me to confirm, and I just blindly
> > go on typing, and it never actually deletes that file.
> >
> >         The only 'caching' Current does is creating symlinks somewhere
> > in the db_dir tree at DB creation time which reference the actual
> > packages, and writing out the gzipped header for each of the RPMS again
> > within the db_dir tree somewhere.
> >
> > On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Ray Kimsey wrote:
> >
> > > I seem to be missing something.  I set up a current server a while back
> > > and it was working fine until I added a rpm package by mistake.  It was
> > > a non RH package that I did not want added.  I removed the package from
> > > the RPM directory (and from the whole system) but everytime I run the
> > > cadmin create command, the package shows up in the database directory.
> > > New servers then try to down load it.  I have remove the current db
> > > directory and it still shows up.  How do you get rid of it? Where is the
> > > info being cached?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any ideas and thank you for the software!
> > >
> > > Ray
> > >
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