On Friday 24 February 2006 03:26am, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Lamont R. Peterson wrote: > > On Thursday 23 February 2006 01:10am, n0dalus wrote: > >>On 2/23/06, Igor Jagec <igorm5@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >>Essentially, after installing livna's packages instead, you would need > >>to do an rpm -Va on various packages to ensure that the files hadn't > >>been replaced (If they have, reinstall those packages). > > > > Not to nit-pick, but running rpm -Va will check *all* packages; that's > > what the -a switch does. Same for rpm -qa listing all packages. Of > > course, you can also do: > > > > rpm -qa kernel* > > > > to see all packages that begin with "kernel". If you want to verify only > > certain packages with rpm, run: > > > > rpm -V package1 package2 package3 > > > > BTW: rpm -Va will take a long time to run. > > Users who are technically inclined enough to optimize the rpm verify > to a subset of all packages that just encompass all X packages, are > of course free to do so. :o) > > rpm -Va gets them all, without having to have a big explanation, or > provide a list of all of the relevent packages however. Yes, you are right about that. Of course, we're talking about 2 minutes versus (potentially) 90+ minutes to run through it. Yes, I know, those numbers depend on a lot of variables. I have to work with a lot of systems that have everything installs on them. rpm -Va takes a long time to run on those boxes. -- Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: F98C E31A 5C4C 834A BCAB 8CB3 F980 6C97 DC0D D409
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