Re: rpm package caching

Thats wrong - where does it say that?


On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 14:35, John Berninger wrote:
> 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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