On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 03:17:42PM +0000, Tom Hughes via devel wrote: > At this point somebody will no doubt argue that /usr changes on a > package update and that the RPM database is a static definition of > the currently installed OS files, but evidence says otherwise: > > % ls -l /var/lib/rpm > > total 378M > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 378M Dec 28 16:08 rpmdb.sqlite > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32K Dec 29 09:27 rpmdb.sqlite-shm > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Dec 28 16:08 rpmdb.sqlite-wal > > > While "Dec 28 16:08" is indeed the last time I updated that machine > it seems one of the files has changed more recently - no idea what > triggered that but clearly the files are not static between updates.
That is a sqlite write-ahead log shared memory file used to coordinate access between concurrent clients. Someone who knows more about the depths of DNF and RPM than me will need to comment, but it looks like `dnf list` touches it -- even though `rpm -qa` doesn't. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
