[ILUG] wierd rpm problem

[John P. Looney]

 I have an installed RPM database (in a chrooted environment) which seems
to work. I can do stuff like;

 rpm -i package.rpm --root /tmp/chroot 

all lovely. 

 rpm -qa --root /tmp/chroot 

lists it back for me. However, when I do 

# chroot /tmp/chroot
bash-2.04# rpm -qa
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: cannot open Packages index using db1 - No such file or directory (2)
bash-2.04# rpm --rebuilddb
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: cannot open Name index using db1 - Invalid argument (22)
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: cannot open Basenames index using db1 - Invalid argument (22)
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: cannot open Group index using db1 - Invalid argument (22)
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: cannot open Requirename index using db1 - Invalid argument (22)
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: cannot open Providename index using db1 - Invalid argument (22)
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: cannot open Dirnames index using db1 - Invalid argument (22)
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: cannot open Requireversion index using db1 - Invalid argument (22)
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: cannot open Provideversion index using db1 - Invalid argument (22)
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: cannot open Installtid index using db1 - Invalid argument (22)
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
error: unrecognized db option: "db3" ignored.
[ repeat hundreds of times ]
# rpm -qa 
[ nice pretty output ]

 However, the --rebuilddb seems to make up a /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm -
which is the old "rpm dbv1" format. Bah. Any idea why this would be ?

John

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