On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Bernhard Gschaider wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:53:16 +0200
"BG" == Bernhard Gschaider <bgschaid_lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:39:22 -0400
"WLM" == William L Maltby <CentOS4Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
WLM> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 20:27 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> Is there a way to say: "Hey RPM, have a look whether really
>>> the files in your database are on the disk)" ?
WLM> Use rpm's verify option. I forget the exact syntax: I'm sorry
WLM> to have to sentence you to the rpm manpage dungeon. :-(
Sorry. Stupid question again: and if I find inconsistencies, then the
only way to force rpm to correct them yould be something like
yum remove offendingPackage
yum install offendingPackage
or the equivalent rpm-commands?
With apt-rpm you have the possibility to replace a package inline from a
repository, you can do this with:
apt-get install --reinstall <package-name>
This is useful if you damaged files that belonged to an installed RPM
package without having to uninstall all the packages that depend on it as
well.
Under the hood it is the same as:
rpm -Uhv --replacefiles --replacepkgs <file-name>
The --reinstall feature is also useful when during CentOS QA packages are
being updated with the exact same version-release. Or when you want to
convert a RHEL into a CentOS or the other way around.
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