Section 8 · System administration

rpmdb.8

Package: rpm

RPMDB

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS


NAME

rpmdb - RPM Database Tool

SYNOPSIS

rpmdb {—initdb|—rebuilddb}

rpmdb {—verifydb}

rpmdb {—exportdb|—importdb}

DESCRIPTION

The general form of an rpmdb command is

rpm {—initdb|—rebuilddb} [-v] [—dbpath DIRECTORY] [—root DIRECTORY]

Use —initdb to create a new database if one doesn’t already exist (existing database is not overwritten), use —rebuilddb to rebuild the database indices from the installed package headers.

—verifydb performs a low-level integrity check on the database.

—exportdb exports the database in header-list format, suitable for transfporting to another host or database type.

—importdb imports a database from a header-list format as created by —exportdb.

SEE ALSO

popt(3), rpm(8), rpmkeys(8), rpmsign(8), rpm2cpio(8), rpmbuild(8), rpmspec(8)

rpm —help - as rpm supports customizing the options via popt aliases it’s impossible to guarantee that what’s described in the manual matches what’s available.

http://www.rpm.org/ <URL:http://www.rpm.org/>

AUTHORS

Marc Ewing <marc@redhat.com>
Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>