On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:45:37PM -0500, Amy Tanner wrote:

> Actually this happened on a few other boxes today and only when I did an
> apt-get remove galeon.  To test, I then did an apt-get install galeon
> and then an apt-get remove galeon again and did not get the error.  And
> subsequent installs of packages did not result in any errors.

Odd.

> 
> If those files really didn't exist, wouldn't I get those errors every
> time I installed or removed a package?

Actually they get automatically recreated (lacking the previous inform-
ation), this prevents the error/warning from re-occuring.

>                                         Do you know where these files
> live so I can look for them?

/var/lib/rpm/

> 
> > Sigmd5 stores the MD5 signatures for packages, and Filemd5s stores the
> > MD5's for files, this is use to verify if a package has been changed
> > or not.
> 
> -- 
> Amy Tanner
> amy at real-time.com



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