dan wrote:
Toralf Lund wrote:
dan wrote:
Toralf Lund wrote:
As I mentioned earlier, I managed to break the rpm database on my
FC3 box quite badly a while back (may have been a result of
temporary disk failure due to system overheat.) Fortunately, it
turns out that I have a fairly accurate list of packages that are
supposed to be installed, in the form of rpm file names - thanks to
/var/log/rpmpkgs and its backups. So how do I recover the database
based on this list? I guess I want to get hold of each file listed
and to rpm -i --justdb on it, but is there some magic yum command
or similar that might automate the process? (The rpms are taken
from various different repos, so it's not just a question of a
simple ftp mget + rpm install.)
- Toralf
Tor -
I'm not familiar with that method, but I am sure you can use
something like this:
rpm -qa|xargs rpm -i --justdb
or make a shell script that does a while loop on the text file of
the RPMs that are/should be installed.
Yes, but won't I need the actual rpm files before I can do that?
Maybe I wasn't very clear on this, but the way I see it, the main
problem is not to find out what rpm commands to use, but to obtain
the files they want as input. I haven't kept copies of everything
I've downloaded, and the packages came from various different sources
(although I generally take add-ons from large repositories like
Fedora Extras or Freshrpms) so finding the correct version of each
and every rpm file looks like lot of work ;-(
'xargs' is a very useful command. It takes stdout and runs it as an
argument to a command. Very useful indeed.
Hope that helps
-dant
Tor -
ALright, I think I understand your problem a bit more here.
Unfortunately I don't know what to tell you. I thought you said that
you had, for some reason, a text file of all RPMs installed.
I have a text file listing all the rpm *file names*. The problem is that
I don't have the rpm *files*. And I've done a lot of upgrades and
additions, so getting them is not just a matter of inserting the OS
distribution DVD...
If you still have it, and you did a "normal" install, there should
be a ~/install.log* in /root that you can see all base packages
installed. I don't know how many udpates you've done since then, so I
don't know how useful this will be to you, but it's a start.
Good luck
-dant
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