On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 09:15 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:08:42AM -0400, William L. Maltby enlightened us: > > <snip> > > ... been creating three yum-based lists in /var after each update. The > > one which I think I love the most is the installed list. However, my ardor may be misplaced > > due to my relative ignorance about these things. My thinking is that I > > can use that list, with a small amount of scripting and/or manual > > editing, to recover the rpmdb if I need to. I could also make a list > > from RPM itself, but I like the "trust but verify" philosophy that is > > satisfied by getting a list from a different source (hmmm... is *that* > > source trustworthy? ;-). > > > > Creating the lists is an excellent idea. > > > Anyway, all that presumes that recovery from my periodic backups are not > > reasonable for some reason. > > > > My question: am I missing the mark? Should I really be doing a list only > > from RPM or is the YUM list (suf/de)ficient? > > > > It's the same list. Yum is merely an interface/dependency resolver on top of > the RPM database. > > Matt > -- Bill
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