redhat-list Digest, Vol 144, Issue 1

[S Sai Krishna Prasad]

Hi Jonathan,

I am using the following version of rpm:

rpm-5.4.14-r0.0.corei7_64

Regards,
Sai Krishna

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1. Purpose of /var/lib/rpm/log/log.XXXX file (S Sai Krishna Prasad)
2. Re: Purpose of /var/lib/rpm/log/log.XXXX file (Jonathan Billings)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:17:03 +0000
Subject: Purpose of /var/lib/rpm/log/log.XXXX file
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Hi All,
I would like to know what is the use of log.XXXX file that is present in
the directory /var/lib/rpm/log/. I saw that when I rebuild the rpm database
using the command "rpm --rebuilddb" a new file is created and the older one
is removed but the size of the file remains the same. I would like to know
why it is present, what it stores and is there any way we can reduce the
size of the file to like 1MB. Currently the size of the file is exactly
10MB.
Regards and Thanks in Advance,
Sai Krishna
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:27:53 -0400
Subject: Re: Purpose of /var/lib/rpm/log/log.XXXX file
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What version of 'rpm' are you using? What's the output of 'rpm -q rpm'?

Hi All,
I would like to know what is the use of log.XXXX file that is present in
the directory /var/lib/rpm/log/. I saw that when I rebuild the rpm

database

using the command "rpm --rebuilddb" a new file is created and the older

one

is removed but the size of the file remains the same. I would like to

know

why it is present, what it stores and is there any way we can reduce the
size of the file to like 1MB. Currently the size of the file is exactly
10MB.
Regards and Thanks in Advance,
Sai Krishna
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[Jonathan Billings]

Post by S Sai Krishna Prasad
Hi Jonathan,
rpm-5.4.14-r0.0.corei7_64

That's not a version of 'rpm' in any version of RHEL I'm aware of. Perhaps
you need to ask on the rpm5 mailing list?

For what it's worth, I googled for rpm and /var/lib/rpm/log and found this:

http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/5202.html

[Enertex]

Out of curiosity: rpm -q rpm  results
fedora25 = RPM version 4.13.0.1CentOS 7 = rpm-4.11.3-21.el7.x86_64

Post by Jonathan Billings
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Post by S Sai Krishna Prasad
Hi Jonathan,
rpm-5.4.14-r0.0.corei7_64

That's not a version of 'rpm' in any version of RHEL I'm aware
of.  Perhaps
you need to ask on the rpm5 mailing list?
 http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/5202.html
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