Question regarding Lab 10.2 (best way to revert back to rpm_BACKUP)

Hello Instructors/Mentors,
(I am running openSUSE Tumbleweed on a VM)
As a note I would like to mention that 'rpm' on openSUSE system is located on (symbolic linked) '/usr/lib/sysimage/'
The questions I have is:
- What is the best way to revert back to 'rpm_BACKUP' in case (new) rpm doesn't function properly after '--rebuilddb'? I have tried 'sudo cp' and 'sudo mv' command to replace new 'rpm' with 'rpm_BACKUP' however when I lookup the number of files (using 'ls -l rpm rpm_BACKUP') afterwards they still differ as if replacing (using cp and mv) command didn't work.
- (Not sure if it's the right question to ask however here it goes) Is 'rpm --rebuilddb' performs comparable action as 'apt update && apt upgrade' performs in ubuntu even though one is low-level and the other is high-level utility respectively?
(Screenshot attached for reference)
Please provide clarification.
Thank you,
Amar
Answers
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I don't have access to a Tumbleweed, but on OpenSUSE Leap 15.4, please note that
[email protected]:/var/lib/rpm> ls -li /var/lib/rpm /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm 131077 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 3 04:50 /var/lib/rpm -> ../../usr/lib/sysimage/rpm
so it is /var/lb/rpm. The link is irrelevant. The layout of these files is quite different between redhat-based systems
and SUSE, but the functionality of rpm --rebuilddb should not be different. I'm not sure what problem you are pointing to. Did you do a diff sinstead of a ls -l? Meta data can change without any meaning to itNote that so few students use SuSe-based platforms that it has been a while since we have checked this lab on openSuse but it worked as of last attempt.
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and on opensuse this directory looks nothing like Tumbleweed so I cannot help you
[email protected]:/> ls -l /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm total 347684 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14778368 Dec 14 08:49 Basenames -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20480 Dec 14 08:48 Conflictname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5304320 Dec 14 08:49 Dirnames -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Nov 23 11:47 Enhancename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Oct 4 15:11 Filetriggername -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61440 Dec 14 08:49 Group -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106496 Dec 14 08:49 Installtid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151552 Dec 14 08:49 Name -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73728 Dec 14 08:49 Obsoletename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 326926336 Dec 14 08:49 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6557696 Dec 14 08:49 Providename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49152 Dec 14 08:49 Recommendname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 811008 Dec 14 08:49 Requirename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 270336 Dec 14 08:49 Sha1header -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151552 Dec 14 08:49 Sigmd5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Dec 14 08:48 Suggestname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 675840 Dec 14 08:48 Supplementname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Jun 8 2022 Transfiletriggername -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Jun 8 2022 Triggername
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