Re:What makes us Red Hat
by vetinari on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:47PM
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As someone who used Redhat since 5.0 - the RPM database never died for me. But then, I've never used 'rpm --force', which many did and I suspect was the major factor in RPM database death.
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I think it was more of a problem on the BerkeleyDB side than on the side of
data. BDB was giving an impression of quite fragile thing back then, but it
was (and AFAIK still is) the only source of data about installed packages.